The shift toward more laws, police incidents, and over-regulation of ordinary parental duties isn't isolated, nor is it surprising. The US is a country that has

The shift toward more laws, police incidents, and over-regulation of ordinary parental duties isn't isolated, nor is it surprising. The US is a country that has been on the path of abandoning individual liberty in favor of paternalistic, authoritarian statism for decades. The real irony is that people are expressing dismay about issues and outcomes such as this, while in the same breath supporting piles and piles of evermore invasive laws that dictate how others should live their lives. When you replace the state as the primary actor in so many areas that were once the role of parents and community members, you get the state handling things the most common way it knows how: by force and criminalization.