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Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town(reason.com)

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adarza@lemmy.ca
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‘be home for supper’ and/or ‘call if you’re gonna be late’.

those were mom’s rules back then. she only got worried and upset if i was late and did not call.

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masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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Come in when the street lights turn on.

Don’t go too far.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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Locking the door and forcing a kid to ring the doorbell and beg to be let in after dark was just a thing back then. I hope the lack of any consequences and independence doesn’t hurt American kids’ development when, say, Romanian kids are still afforded freedom.

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