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| Depiction of kids walking alone |
There’s a family in Maryland who are
bringing their children up like kids around the world have been brought up for
generations. They go to the park, they
go their friends, they ride their bikes and they hang out together just so long
as they don’t cause any trouble and are home by a certain time.
But somewhere along the way that
became illegal. Seriously!
These 2 kids in Maryland are 10 and 6 and were
picked up for the second time by Montgomery County Child Protective Services.
It appears they were about 1/3 of a mile away from their home when someone
called 911. Heck we see kids all the time around Arizona by themselves and I
wouldn’t think of calling 911 but in this case someone did and the CPS picked
them up.
As foolish as that is, they
responded as their job demands but what they failed to do was to contact the
parents and let them know that they had the kids. They let these poor parents
worry until about 8PM when the kids were supposed to be home by 6:30PM. The
parents were frantic and driving through the neighborhood looking for them. Then
CPS made them wait another couple of hours and sign a safety plan before
releasing the children to them. By signing the safety plan it means they are not allowed
to leave their children unattended at all.
Now I’m pretty incredulous about
this because when I was 10 years old I used to babysit other peoples kids; I
used to hop on my bike and ride miles away to visit my married sister or go for
a ride with friends… it was how we learned to be responsible and independent. Did
we sometimes do dumb things? Sure we did but it was part of the learning
process. How do you teach them those skills now?
When did this happen? More
importantly who let it happen?
These are our children, these are
good people without a bad record, these kids are good kids and didn’t cause any
issue other than walking home. The media is referring to kids like this as
“free range kids” like their cattle, sheep or property. For goodness sake their
kids!
Free range parenting is now being
looked at by CPS across the country as negligence. These parents are fighting
for their right to let their children grow up the same way they did but
government departments are actively working to keep every child safe even from
themselves. They take thousands of children out of their homes because they are
deemed “at risk”. These are kids that are not abused, not harmed in anyway but
are merely being allowed to grow up with a reasonable level of responsibility
and independence. Parental discretion is being thrown out the window because
the government knows best.
These are the types of issues that
we need to be outraged about, we need to fight for smaller government and we
need to fight every day or we’ll soon find that the government will control
every aspect of our lives from the cradle to the grave. We will have babies on
demand, go to government doctors, go to government schools, work where we are
told, live where we are told, have an allowance instead of a paycheck and the
list goes on. If you are very honest with yourself you will look closely and
see that government schools exist, Obamacare is working on government doctors
and it appears our children are no longer ours.
Become passionate, get involved and
stop Big Brother…
KK
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