It's important to point out that while these laws are showing up on the books, it can do little when the community or police department get involved: https://re

It's important to point out that while these laws are showing up on the books, it can do little when the community or police department get involved: https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed-cps-son-walk-home/ https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed... In this case, Texas had protections for "free range parenting", but that only applied to CPS. The local police department still threw the book at the parents as retaliation. I think people need to realize that police departments themselves have a hand in propagating these myths. Terms like "sex trafficking" are loosely defined and used freely to convey a danger that is almost completely fabricated - that children are abducted off of their own lawn by complete strangers. The reality is that the vast, vast majority of both child abductions and sex trafficking are done by people the children know, and completely unrelated from each other. And few of the these cases are actually solved by police! And yet we are all victims of a kind of PR ruse intended to steer resources to a specific set of government agencies tilting after hypothetical problems.