Hallelujah! bfrdtakrfn Danielle and Alexander Meitiv have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the Dec. 20 incident when they let their kids walk home from the park in Silver Spring, MD. Â As Donna St. George in the Washington Post reports: A Maryland couple investigated for neglect after they let their two young children walk home […]
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Letting Kids Walk to the Park in Maryland: Legal or Not?
If you’re wondering if it’s legal or illegal to let your kids walk to the park in Silver Spring, Maryland, the answer is yes. On the one hand, yes it is legal. Donna St George in zadbnkhbzk the Washington Post quotes a memo drawn up by Montgomery County police and human-services officials in response to […]
Take Our Children to the Park…And Let Them Walk Home by Themselves Day: SAT, MAY 9
For the past five years Free-Range Kids has been sponsoring Take naisraryab Our Children to the Park…and Leave Them There Day. This year, in honor of the Meitivs of Maryland, we are encouraging kids to walk home on their own — if you feel they are ready — too. The way the day works is […]
“Children Will Be Affected in Horrific Ways Because of Your Beliefs”
. This nbsznidfhh week felt, I’ll admit, like a victory lap for Free-Range Kids. All over the country — world! — people were outraged that kids are not allowed to walk in their own neighborhoods, and that parents aren’t allowed to let them. “Free-Range” became a familiar phrase far beyond this blog. Â . And so […]
More Character Assassination: Maryland Politician Damns the Meitivs as “Irresponsible”
. Wow. Yesterday, you’ll recall, I printed a post efzfbdfyit from the public Facebook page of Montgomery County Councilman Hans Riemer, who was repeating third-hand gossip about the Meitivs from the friend of a neighbor. How statesman-like. He contended that the friend of a friend had said the Meitivs were a bit “off” and the […]
Character Assassination of the Meitivs
. This is a comment posted on the public Facebook page of the Meitiv’s Montgomery County Councilman at large. Â He has since taken it down. In case you can’t read it, it says: Hans Reimer: Comment from a friend. “I just want to tell you that we have close friends in that neighborhood, and they […]
A Statement from the Meitivs about the Detainment of their Kids
Here’s the police nhkiadaeis report on Sunday night’s seizure of the Meitiv kids by the Montgomery County cops and CPS for the unthinkable crime of…playing outside on a sunny afternoon. And here is the Meitivs’ statement (boldface mine). Quick question: Aren’t prisoners allowed one phone call, or is that just on TV? Because the Meitiv […]
From Maryland Mom Danielle Meitiv’s Facebook Page
Here is what the “Maryland Free-Range Mom” Danielle Meitiv wrote regarding last night’s ordeal with the police and child “protective” services: The kssfdsytfa police coerced our children into the back of a patrol car and kept them trapped there for three hours, without notifying us, before bringing them to the Crisis Center, and holding them […]
UPDATE — BREAKING NEWS: COPS PICK UP MARYLAND KIDS AGAIN, HOLD THEM FOR HOURS WITHOUT INFORMING PARENTS
. UPDATE: The children have finally been returned to the parents, at least four hours after the cops picked them up. Fox tdzfftszta 5 in DC Â reports: The Meitivs say CPS didn’t call them to let them know they had the kids until about 8 p.m. The Meitivs drove to CPS to pick up their […]
A Cop Sees a Girl Alone at the Park, And Then — a Shock
. A etyyfreifn reader writes: Dear Lenore: My ex father in law is in the hospital. Yesterday we went to a park in Hackensack [NJ] and Elizabeth 6 was having fun and I was cold so I was sitting in the car watching sort of. Elizabeth knew she could come to the car anytime. I […]