Legalizing Free-Range Parenting

The “free-range kids” Rafi and Dvora Meitiv—whose parents were famously investigated for neglect after letting them walk home from a park alone in December—were picked up again by police on Sunday evening. Their parents, Danielle and Alexander, dropped them off at a park at 4 p.m. and told the ten-year-old and six-year-old to be home by 6 p.m. Instead, a passerby reported the unattended twosome to the police, who took them into custody. The parents weren’t informed until hours later. Facebook, Twitter, and the mommy blogs are up in arms over this turn of events. Were these children really in any danger walking a mile on the familiar streets of Silver Spring, Maryland? Of course not. So what can be done?

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