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From your link, (1) it was a 9 year old, and (2) I don't see anything about CPS calls or any similar panic. > Skenazy's April 1, 2008 column in The New York Su
by throwaway287391 8y ago
From your link, (1) it was a 9 year old, and (2) I don't see anything about CPS calls or any similar panic.
> Skenazy's April 1, 2008 column in The New York Sun, "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone," described her making the controversial decision to let her son take the New York City Subway home alone, which was completed without incident.
- bookofjoe 8y agoI recall my mother telling me that when I was 8, I used to take my 5 year-old-brother places — just the two of us — on the electric streetcar. I handled the money to pay our fares. This was in Milwaukee in the mid-50s. No big deal.