Parents under investigation for allowing their kids to go outside

[Singedrac]

Ugh. Autoplaying embedded video. Not cool, Boing Boing. Not cool.

[anon26940528]

@PrestonSturges

As I was saying here just the other day, codependent people tend towards positions of petty authority often involving children, and social work is one of their main choices. Because codependent people were frequently raised in homes where there was alcoholism or they were beaten violently and often, they may have a vendetta against people who are failing to beat their children and may take those children and deliver them to a foster family where there is rape and abuse. Notice that it is not terribly unusual for a social worker’s children to be raped or murdered by their live boy friend/girl friend. Also look at long running scandal likes Jerry Savile and ponder how easy it was for him to surround himself with enablers.

Man, who pissed in your soup?

[eric_poulsen]

Go watch old TV shows like the Dick Van Dyke; first season, first episode, Laura receives a phone call from her 5-year-old Richie’s teacher saying he was on his way home. Walking. Alone. And it was perfectly normal for 50’s-era America.

On Leave it to Beaver, Beaver and Wally do all kinds of stuff on their own regularly, and it’s seen as perfectly normal for them to be gone all day without any supervision, and often their parents don’t even know where they’re going.

I walked home from school in Kindergarten and 1st grade (age 5, not 7 like it is today) in the 1970’s, to an empty house (I had a key) and it was completely normal.

[OtherMichael]

There weren’t as many people back then, so it was safer?