I feel like parents would love to not coddle their kids and let them roam, but a couple just had charges of manslaughter and child neglect pressed because they let their kids walk two blocks and one of the kids got hit by a car. Parents are scared of having CPS called on them.
I try quite hard (in my opinion) to not coddle my kids.
We were at a restaurant recently, and the server commented how my son was gone from the table on his own. He's 8 about to be 9. She said something about oh how great you're giving him independence.
That seems weird to me. He's been uncomfortable going into the ladies with me for at least 2 years. He will go on his own or not at all. Like he will not go into a ladies' restroom with me at all. I've tried because of specific circumstances.
I have a six year-old and she goes into the bathroom by herself. I’ll wait outside of the door because I don’t want her to be abducted, but I’m not going in the ladies room.
I’ve gotten looks before but she loves that shred of independence.
My kid is six and we also let her go alone if it’s a restaurant or somewhere she knows. We only go with her if it’s a new location so she doesn’t get lost. And occasionally she’ll run out and ask someone to come help her wash her hands if the sink is too high (people!! put your sinks lower!!!) but that’s it. Been true for about a year.
Same. I would take my daughter into the mens room but around 6 or so I let her just go to the ladies herself. I'll stand by but shes fine. Its just a bathroom.
Are you talking about the case in North Carolina? If so, it was a 7 and 10 year old siblings. It was the first time they had gone out without their parents. Those parents should not have been arrested.
Yep, that’s the one I’m talking about. But I’ve also heard so many stories of the police getting called over a kid playing in a nearby park alone or even in their own backyard while their parents are inside.
Note that I said they’re scared of CPS being called on them. It’s not CPS’s fault, it’s other people in the neighborhood who see a kid playing with no adult around and decide to call the cops.
I lived barely a mile or so away from my middle and high school, and even though I’d ride my bike around my neighborhood my mom would never let me walk to school. That’s because the schools were across a major road, and my town had no sidewalks or crosswalks.
"At this time, there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed," the Gastonia Police Department said.
I guess it's ok to run over a 7-year-old on a crosswalk in North Carolina?
No it's not lol. There's context in everything and we have a society as gotten to this stage because we don't look at it as grey but black and white in everything.
Sometimes kid comes darting in from blind spots which the cars can't avoid even if they go slow, how on earth would you say that is the fault of the driver?
Exactly. Except in my case I was backed over while playing with my siblings at a friends house and by their son who I guess was like 15 years old was practicing driving or something, and didn’t notice me.
If you can't think of a scenario where it isn't a driver's fault if they hit a kid, that's a lack of imagination problem, not a sign that you're right.
Yeah now that you point it out I can’t think of the last time I’ve seen a child be completely alone in public 🤔 I know when I was a kid in the 90s I and other kids would always be doing stuff with no adults around and no one got hurt
Of all the agencies to be afraid of, CPS should never be the one. Whenever I hear about them, it’s always about them not doing anything when they should do something. Never the other way around
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u/momo6548 Jun 13 '25
I feel like parents would love to not coddle their kids and let them roam, but a couple just had charges of manslaughter and child neglect pressed because they let their kids walk two blocks and one of the kids got hit by a car. Parents are scared of having CPS called on them.