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SoCalDem

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19. same here.. my three "free range" sons left after breakfast

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 06:41 PM

Jul 2014

came home for lunch ( or called me from a friend's house if they were invited for lunch there) and returned when the street lights came on.. They were in the neighborhood, and I could usually see them if I looked outside, but they also did exploring..

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A Nice Jailing Should Teach This Terrible Mom To Let Her Nine-Year-Old Daughter..... [View all] one_voice Jul 2014 OP

What's she doing, working? Doesn't she know she's a woman? Scootaloo Jul 2014 #1

Now let's here from the "Social Services Can Do No Wrong" crowd -- pnwmom Jul 2014 #2

Wait, are we supposed to be for or against Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2014 #5

A black woman arrested for doing something that millions of white moms geek tragedy Jul 2014 #3

+1 geardaddy Jul 2014 #49

If I came before dark when I was 9 my mom would think I was sick. Lochloosa Jul 2014 #4

I rode my bicycle to a neighboring town when I was 9 Art_from_Ark Jul 2014 #24

So did I. My brother and rode all over the Westside of Ft. Worth rickyhall Jul 2014 #27

Should have added: HubertHeaver Jul 2014 #37

... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2014 #41

Another victory for Helicopter parenting. Warren DeMontague Jul 2014 #6

I love going overseas ClarkeVII Jul 2014 #7

Welcome to DU LittleGirl Jul 2014 #32

i have a park across the non busy, residential street. houses surround this two block park. seabeyond Jul 2014 #8

They were upset the child was... one_voice Jul 2014 #13

I am not sure what you are trying to say; greiner3 Jul 2014 #35

No, not at all. one_voice Jul 2014 #39

It sounds more like no parent or adult relative handy and no neighbor designated as a amandabeech Jul 2014 #34

That's nuts MrScorpio Jul 2014 #9

Maybe she's an African American kid alone in a park? Generic Other Jul 2014 #20

I guess I should be in jail too PumpkinAle Jul 2014 #10

Time after time we read about this...Where are the churches to help with this...Don't they have.. Tikki Jul 2014 #11

That seems so bizarre! delrem Jul 2014 #12

9 year olds babysat siblings Generic Other Jul 2014 #23

I babysat my twin cousins at 10 in 1958 HockeyMom Jul 2014 #25

I was baby sitting at 11 JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #28

Yep I guess I am old too. zeemike Jul 2014 #26

Same here. If we didn't leave the house, it was "fer cryan out loud can't you kids go out and play?" NBachers Jul 2014 #38

Yep. Moms in those days didn't want kids hanging around the house Art_from_Ark Jul 2014 #44

This is an area I have to side with the right wingers about the "Nanny State" Bandit Jul 2014 #14

How is it "abandoned" when mom gave her a cell phone, and knew where she was? bluesbassman Jul 2014 #15

Very much like my childhood... one_voice Jul 2014 #17

same here.. my three "free range" sons left after breakfast SoCalDem Jul 2014 #19

I just looked at some of my childhood homes on Google Earth Half-Century Man Jul 2014 #40

I owned Andersen AFB in my youth Generic Other Jul 2014 #43

When I was nine, I pretty much roamed free in the summer. NaturalHigh Jul 2014 #16

Me too. Enthusiast Jul 2014 #21

SC law says 8 is the minimum age for "home alone" SoCalDem Jul 2014 #18

The thought that when I was 9 that I needed any adult supervision joeybee12 Jul 2014 #22

When I was 7 or 8 and I was able to go to a place called Politicalboi Jul 2014 #29

BECAUSE of her being a girl child? littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 #30

When I was 9 and my brother was 3 Terra Alta Jul 2014 #31

I was a latchkey kid at 9 years old. Yavin4 Jul 2014 #33

Geez. We were allowed to walk home from school alone in 3rd grade. thesquanderer Jul 2014 #36

Prominent newspaper Advice Columnist advocated this in print.. kickysnana Jul 2014 #42

I don't really recall this kind of crazy overprotectiveness, 30 years ago Spider Jerusalem Jul 2014 #45

Seriously? We'd get on our bikes in the morning TBF Jul 2014 #46

Shit for brains, and a dried-up peach pit for a heart. QuestForSense Jul 2014 #48

This is an utterly ridiculous reaction rjj621 Jul 2014 #47