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[Michael] Tang, a chemist who was feeling frustrated with his 8-year-old son for cheating on homework, decided to teach him an important life lesson – that money is hard to earn and slacking off at school could mean not having a home someday. Tang dropped Isaac off in a parking lot one mile from home and told him to walk the rest of the way. It was 7:45 p.m. in Corona, a city near Los Angeles, and the sun had barely set. Isaac knew the route home and was familiar with using pedestrian crossings.
When Tang sent his father to get Isaac after 15 minutes, the child already been picked up by police, alerted by someone who thought he was in danger because he was alone. Tang was arrested and spent the night in jail; but the punishment did not end there. Reason reports:
"A jury later convicted him of child endangerment, and the judge sentenced him to parenting classes and a 56-day work release program picking up trash and doing other menial work."
(Score: 4, Touché) by Grishnakh on Friday April 21 2017, @07:58PM (4 children)
The world? As far as I can tell, this helicopter parenting craziness is confined to the US.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:00AM (3 children)
It's happening in Canada too, recently a court ruled that someone was endangering her 8 yr old by leaving him alone for a couple of hours after school until she got home from work. As my wife pointed out, she was baby sitting at 8 years old, and when I think of what I (and most of the other kids) did at 5 yrs old...
(Score: 2, Informative) by J_Darnley on Saturday April 22 2017, @11:41AM (2 children)
The UK too. It is probably an Anglosphere phenomenon. I would like to say that it is driven by US cultural exports but I have no evidence of that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @06:13PM (1 child)
it's what is happening to all western governments with variations. some are strictly socialist(scandanavia,western europe, canada, australia) and some are some ungodly mixture of socialism and fascism(America, the one true America, others?). these weasels have infiltrated all government. where else would they go? they can't work for a living. It's only natural that once they get their position of authority that they would use it to make everything "better". they are a cancer on the world. they need to be cut out and burned. the populations are nearly completely brainwashed ala 1984. It's crazy and it's ruining the west. Blood will be spilt and these dumb fuckers won't even understand why. will only blame patriots/freedom fighters as terrorists while they systematically destroy their own countries and their children's futures.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday April 24 2017, @02:34PM
Citation needed, especially the part about it happening to all western governments. I've seen no evidence that non-Anglosphere countries have gotten like this (and so far, I've only heard, and only right here in this very thread, that it's spread to Canada and UK, nothing about Aus/NZ).
It hasn't happened in Japan: there, kids that age are almost literally *forced* out of the house at that age, and to be able to get around in public by themselves.