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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: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Friday April 21 2017, @11:12PM (1 child)
I don't know about the world, but US culture has decayed so far that I mostly just stay home. Yeah, I'm old. And yeah, I wandered all over the place when I was a kid, and had a great childhood / teen years. Parenting today is a series of authoritarian landmines just waiting to be stepped on. I can't even imagine being a kid in the current environment -- it isn't collinear with my concept of "childhood" or "growing up" for any significant stretch.
In the rush to "save the children", I honestly think they've been hugely harmed. Parents too.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @11:41PM
Although more middle aged.
I'm just working on how I am going to get out of here, because what America has become is something that I would feel appalled to bring up children in. I can't promise my kids are going to be safe (who can?), but I can promise they will have better preparation than I could give them living in the US with all the absurd laws, inept education, and general societal decline, both in responsibility and maturity that has been going on for the past 20-30 years. America was never the 'Great' country we like to tout ourselves as, but there was a time where it seemed like things were at least on a general trend towards living up to the fundamental documents we like to claim as making us superior to others. Nowadays though, not enough people even know what the words in those documents are, or what they could mean. And that is truly a travesty for this time.