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Society now criminalizing parents that allow children to play in the yard - What is the world coming

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Yep.. That settles it. We really are going to Hell in a hand basket.



(NaturalNews) A Virginia mother was recently interrogated four times by police, and visited twice by social services, after neighbors spotted the mother's children playing in their own yard unsupervised, and decided to report the non-incident to local authorities. According to Lenore Skenazy of Free-Range Kids, such hysteria and Stasi-style paranoia are becoming the norm in America, where children are being excessively coddled, overprotected, and treated as though they are always in grave danger of being kidnapped or harmed.



During a recent interview with Alex Jones on The Alex Jones Show, Skenazy reflects on how the days when society's youth could simply ride their bicycles to school or into the woods, climb their neighbors' trees, or play at the local park by themselves without adult supervision are essentially gone. Today, it is practically considered abnormal in many areas for young children to even be outside at all, let alone to be exploring on their own or with their friends.



To read more, click here: http://www.naturalnews.com/037209_children_at_play_parents_criminalization.html
 
Unfortunately the article doesn't state the ages of the children. It also doesn't state if the yard they were playing in was a fenced in yard or not. I would be concerned if I saw very small children playing alone and unsupervised. What if one of them ran into the road to chase a ball? What if there is a swimming pool that the article isn't mentioning? Hundreds of children drown in pools every year. This story just isn't giving all the facts and I really can't condone the neighbor without knowing the ages of the children.
 
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