A mother was ARRESTED for letting her 8-year-old son walk half a mile home. Prosecutors said she put her kid “in imminent danger of death.” Really?
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The police argued it is too dangerous for a kid to walk alone in his own neighborhood. The data show otherwise.
Being in a car is 200 times more dangerous than the risk of getting kidnapped. There are only about FIVE stranger abductions per year, according to:
https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/analysis-of-nonfamily-abductions-reported-to-ncmec-2016-2020.pdf
In contrast, traffic deaths averaged 2,386:
https://wisqars.cdc.gov/reports/?o=MORT&y1=2016&y2=2020&t=0&d=&i=0&m=20920&g=00&me=0&s=0&r=0&ry=0&e=0&yp=65&a=custom&g1=0&g2=199&a1=0&a2=17&r1=YEAR&r2=NONE&r3=NONE&r4=NONE
Lenore Skenazy, author of “Free Range Kids,” points out that irrational fear makes parents and authorities overreact, and keep kids from going out and learning about the world.
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