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29. Living in a state with a high rate of sexual assault I'm doing the exact right thing.

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Wed Mar 4, 2015, 09:07 PM

Mar 2015

How many children are you raising?

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When my wife and I were kids this was normal now it is abuse? [View all] diabeticman Mar 2015 OP

We have, and it's not abuse in any way shape or form where I come from. ScreamingMeemie Mar 2015 #1

I walked just over a mile alone each day to reach my school. It was normal in the 50s & 60s. In_The_Wind Mar 2015 #2

Ya, me too, but the hazards along every mile are not the same. HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #10

Thanks google street view maps. I just looked at the house I lived in when I was 9. In_The_Wind Mar 2015 #31

It was normal in the '70s and '80s, too. HuckleB Mar 2015 #11

I have five year old and a nine year old. bravenak Mar 2015 #3

Funny there is not a murderer registry. nt Logical Mar 2015 #17

There should be. bravenak Mar 2015 #18

How about assault? DUI? Robbery? Burglary? Why not all of them? nt Logical Mar 2015 #19

Don't get all buck wild with me!!! I'm not the one. bravenak Mar 2015 #20

No murder registry but a sexual one is a joke. Murder is a little worse. nt Logical Mar 2015 #23

I like the sex offender registry being there. bravenak Mar 2015 #25

And in some states, someone can be put on the registry Mariana Mar 2015 #28

So true, misused a lot. nt Logical Mar 2015 #30

It's not a joke - let tell 840high Mar 2015 #52

It is a joke there is not a murderer registry. nt Logical Mar 2015 #54

Child sex offenders are often repeat offenders. KMOD Mar 2015 #68

Why? plantwomyn Mar 2015 #75

I still would like to know where they live! Nt Logical Mar 2015 #76

yep 840high Mar 2015 #82

Yet sex crimes have recitivism rates at the very bottom, compared to other felonies. X_Digger Mar 2015 #22

The man who raped me as a child died in prison after raping another child. bravenak Mar 2015 #24

Your admittedly horrible experience trumps actual data? Hrmm. X_Digger Mar 2015 #27

Living in a state with a high rate of sexual assault I'm doing the exact right thing. bravenak Mar 2015 #29

I raised 4 and never looked at the registry once. What state do you live in? nt Logical Mar 2015 #32

It's difficult to figure out Aerows Mar 2015 #37

The rape capital of America. bravenak Mar 2015 #46

It is exactly the right thing for you. I am also Ed Suspicious Mar 2015 #33

I'm with you and brave Aerows Mar 2015 #38

I'll ease up when they start listening to me. bravenak Mar 2015 #43

I stand with you, bravenak. I was sexually assaulted as a child. And I check the sex registries! Dont call me Shirley Mar 2015 #56

Thank you. I don't think it's weird at all to check the registries. bravenak Mar 2015 #60

+1. When the majority knows this, then a positive change in society can occur. Dont call me Shirley Mar 2015 #93

Ours flew the nest, without being wrapped in bubble wrap. X_Digger Mar 2015 #34

Did you live in the Rape capital of America? bravenak Mar 2015 #45

New Orleans, Knoxville, Tampa, Miami Beach, among others.. X_Digger Mar 2015 #47

Did you read about Alaska tho? bravenak Mar 2015 #48

And NOLA was (still is?) the murder capital. X_Digger Mar 2015 #49

But you think I'm overprotective? bravenak Mar 2015 #51

Wait, you assume I've read every post you've made in this thread? Lol. X_Digger Mar 2015 #53

Yes. I usually read every post on a subthread I respond to. bravenak Mar 2015 #55

Your kids, your call. But would you consider parents who made a different call "abusive"? Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #74

It depends. bravenak Mar 2015 #78

I am sorry. Really sorry. 840high Mar 2015 #79

It's ok. I think people think that only happens in books. Blinders. bravenak Mar 2015 #80

my wife is EXTREMELY overprotective of her son backwoodsbob Mar 2015 #84

That's different. He's grown. bravenak Mar 2015 #85

it's coming backwoodsbob Mar 2015 #88

Not your job to support grown men. At all. bravenak Mar 2015 #89

yep backwoodsbob Mar 2015 #90

I'm going to step right up to the plate Aerows Mar 2015 #36

So you think nothing a parent does can be too overprotective? Nothing? nt Logical Mar 2015 #39

I think if a parent is wary Aerows Mar 2015 #41

Thank you. bravenak Mar 2015 #40

Exactly Aerows Mar 2015 #44

This is clearly insane. Warpy Mar 2015 #4

+1000 nomorenomore08 Mar 2015 #77

Name the officials involved and try to get them fired. AngryAmish Mar 2015 #5

The article doesn't mention the route they walked. femmocrat Mar 2015 #6

Why don't you think they're safe any more? HuckleB Mar 2015 #8

Well, they are famous now. femmocrat Mar 2015 #12

And yet it's safer than it was 20, 30, 40 years ago. HuckleB Mar 2015 #14

We're becoming a very fearful society. HuckleB Mar 2015 #7

That is crazier than shit. hifiguy Mar 2015 #9

we would travel miles on our bikes at that age in the fifties spanone Mar 2015 #13

I can remember at age 10 riding my bike 6 miles along the gravel shoulder of a narrow county road tularetom Mar 2015 #15

My mother put me in my playpen teenagebambam Mar 2015 #16

I was a feral child, and I can't claim it was all good... hunter Mar 2015 #21

In Middle School in the 70's, I sometimes walked 6 miles to get home. Maedhros Mar 2015 #26

i went into the woods once by myself, got out of the area i knew following some imaginary trail, ND-Dem Mar 2015 #65

When I was a kid, we didn't see our mother from morning to night liberal N proud Mar 2015 #35

Something that is a mile away is not in my neighborhood but is in a nearby neigborhood Bluenorthwest Mar 2015 #42

i used to run all over the place MFM008 Mar 2015 #50

My sister and I ran all over the neighborhood cwydro Mar 2015 #57

So many kids don't even go outside today, though KMOD Mar 2015 #71

I know. cwydro Mar 2015 #92

There is a difference between abuse and neglect loyalsister Mar 2015 #58

when i was a kid we were out from dawn to dark, went all over the neighborhood, to the store, ND-Dem Mar 2015 #59

my brother & i were latch key kids a lot, if we did not go 3 doors away to grandparents. pansypoo53219 Mar 2015 #61

When I was in kindergarten in the mid-50's, SheilaT Mar 2015 #62

There were a lot of us... Blanks Mar 2015 #63

If You Want Free Range Kids, Go Live on the Range Upward Mar 2015 #64

When I was a kid, I would be gone all day on my bike. My friends and I would only come home to eat midnight Mar 2015 #66

It's absurd to believe that constitutes neglect Dyedinthewoolliberal Mar 2015 #67

sad part is, there are kids who are genuinely abused being neglected/ignored by CPS whereisjustice Mar 2015 #69

Ironically, crime rate in the US has been dropping for twenty years. progressoid Mar 2015 #70

I don't think we're getting 840high Mar 2015 #81

I live in Florida where people come for sun, sand, and sea. Criminals come too. 1monster Mar 2015 #72

Ridiculous overreach. KMOD Mar 2015 #73

Six is a bit young, but the 10 is OK taught_me_patience Mar 2015 #83

I have kids the same age abelenkpe Mar 2015 #86

I suffered the opposite. My parents were jailers. Manifestor_of_Light Mar 2015 #87

Kids who lived relatively close to our elementary school walked in the 60s and 70s. Yo_Mama Mar 2015 #91