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> The bill specifies that it isn't neglectful to let kids do things alone like travel to school, explore a playground or stay in the car. My point is if they s
by d--b 9y ago
> The bill specifies that it isn't neglectful to let kids do things alone like travel to school, explore a playground or stay in the car.
My point is if they start a list of not-neglectful things, then it becomes the list of authorized-only things. What about letting my kids chop wood, light a barbecue, carve a chicken, swim in a lake without supervision?
- burkaman 9y agoOk, can you write a law that allows those things while disallowing "leave my 8 year old at home for a month while I go on vacation"? Where are you going to draw the line, and how? Do you think you can get a whole state to agree with you on where the line should be? Does age matter? If so, what ages matter, and how? Do you think public attitudes might change in the future, and require the line to move? The only way to write this law would be to provide basically no guidance and give police and judges and enormous amount of discretion, or to provide a lot of detail that includes concrete examples of things that are allowed and things that aren't. The world is too complex to write this in purely general terms and expect it to work without issue.
- d--b 9y agoOf course you can't write such a law. My point is that because such a law is impossible to write, I think it is better to defer to common sense, and to attack CPS when they're overreaching.