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

   The state of the USA:
     Forbidden Parenting
     [1]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/forbidden-parenting

   [2]https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2020/03/04/forbidden-par
   enting-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

References

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