On Sunday, March 8, 2020, 04:16:12 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:

The state of the USA:

  Forbidden Parenting
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/forbidden-parenting
  https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2020/03/04/forbidden-parenting-n2562973

 >   South Carolina mom Debra Harrell worked at McDonald's.
 >   She couldn't afford day care for Regina, her 9-year-old daughter, so she took her to work.

    [snip].

 >   In jail, they berated her.
  >    "You can't leave a child who is 9 years old in the park by herself!" said one officer. "What if some sex offender came by?"



In 1964, I was a "latchkey kid" at age 6 in Hyde Park, a suburb of Cinncinati Ohio.   I never got lost.

                       Jim Bell