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- Sep 2, 2026
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Virginia mom gets 6-month suspended jail sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond (opens the original)
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A mom of five was convicted last week of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. Until very recently, Karyann Parkinson lived in leafy Williamsburg, Virginia. She and her husband, Dallin, moved there from Utah so Parkinson could attend William and Mary Law School. In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar—and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child—she and he
The war on free-range kids makes The New York Times (opens the original)
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Thursday's edition of The New York Times asked a question I've been asking here for over a decade: "Is Letting Children Out Alone A Rite of Passage or a Crime?" Reason readers know it can, in some sense, be both: a rite of passage too often treated as a crime. One of the primary missions of Let Grow, the nonprofit I cofounded, is to make sure the parents who trust their kids with some reasonable independence are not investigated for neglect. But they are. The Times piece opens with the story of
A Pennsylvania mom says the cops were called on her 4 times—for letting her kids be outside (opens the original)
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Whenever Ms. Gordon lets her sons go outside now, she cleans house. "All right, my kid just went around the block to his friend, let me sweep," she says. "Because I know if the house is clean, that's the first step toward making a good impression on Child Protective Services. It's a bizarre thought process, but—" But not completely irrational. Gordon (who asked not to use her first name) has had the cops called on her four times for letting her sons, 5, 7, and 9, walk and play outside in Bala Cy
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