Ethan A. Huff
Natural News
September 15, 2012
A Virginia mother was recently interrogated four times by police, and visited twice by social services, after neighbors spotted the mother's children playing in their own yard unsupervised, and decided to report the non-incident to local authorities. According to Lenore Skenazy of Free-Range Kids,
such hysteria and Stasi-style paranoia are becoming the norm in
America, where children are being excessively coddled, overprotected,
and treated as though they are always in grave danger of being kidnapped
or harmed.
During a recent interview with Alex Jones on The Alex Jones Show,
Skenazy reflects on how the days when society's youth could simply ride
their bicycles to school or into the woods, climb their neighbors'
trees, or play at the local park by themselves without adult supervision
are essentially gone. Today, it is practically considered abnormal in
many areas for young children to even be outside at all, let alone to be
exploring on their own or with their friends.
"What's happening
... is parents who let their children play outside, walk to school, or
go to the grocery (store) for them often have neighbors who turn them
in, supposedly out of concern ... and what happens is Child Protective
Services (CPS) is obligated to come and check out whether or not these
parents are being negligent, or worse abusive," says Skenazy, who
receives calls all the time from parents that are being persecuted by law enforcement for allowing their kids to play outside.
"What has happened is that the parents
are found wrong by the police or CPS for leaving their children in what
CPS calls 'a dangerous situation,' which I would call a 'normal, nice
situation.' In fact, less dangerous than just letting your kids
sit inside all day getting fat and diabetic, you let your kids run
outside or have some independent adventures, that's considered bad
parenting now."
