Breaking News - Mom Arrested After Child Walks Alone - Gen X Reacts

[@desmien679]

GenX here and she should definitely take this up to the US Supreme Court if needed which has ruled in many cases that parental rights are a fundamental right protected by the US Constitution.

[@radgraham]

@@desmien679 👌exactly. 🤙

[@map3384]

In the 70s my mother would give me money to go to the A&P less than a mile away to buy something. I was 9 or 10 years old. Absolutely ridiculous. All of my friends would too.

[@radgraham]

@@map3384 yep me too🤙

[@markhemphill6295]

We did too but those days are over pedpfiles are everywhere and with the drugs, we were just in luckier times then. Take care and God bless

[@Challenge_Jackson]

Totally ridiculous that she's being penalised. There's actually a go fund me page set up to help her with legal fees. I walked almost 1.5 miles to school every day when I was 9 onwards, and would ride my bike even further than that to visit friends. Hell even at 10 and 11 we were riding our bikes about 5 miles OUT of town to villages near the next town over. I only ever had one incident of a guy trying to get me in his car yet that actually happened 2 blocks away from home which was an affluent area of town so just shows it doesn't even matter all that much how far away you play as a kid. It's more bad luck than bad parenting

[@radgraham]

@Challenge_Jackson well said. Yeah it's unfortunate when it happened but people can't live in a bubble either🤙

[@markhemphill6295]

How about be part of the search party when her kid goes missing?

[@Karen-ip9ch]

Why is it so important to have a CPS tracker on his phone

[@radgraham]

@@Karen-ip9ch I know right. Males no sense. Add this app or else wth!🤙

[@Wild-Radio]

It is acceptable for the child to walk alone. Anyone who thinks otherwise is part of the problem in this world.

[@rambo9997]

if the streets are not safe for a mile.... it's the problem of the police who are not doing their job

[@radgraham]

@@rambo9997 exactly! Couldn't have said it better myself 🤘

[@taspiderman1]

i would sue the city and county

[@johnathanwroe2148]

What city? Population 300

[@rocketman6973]

In the 70's I walked about 1/2 mile to school at that age. This was in Paterson, NJ, hardly the safest town, but it was a normal thing to do then. After school we could go outside and play or ride bikes until dark.

[@radgraham]

@@rocketman6973 I think we were all more aware because we weren't distracted by cell phones and apps. We walked with intent and focus🤙

[@sondraarrache1908]

Having his mom in jail is gonna make him safe?

[@radgraham]

@sondraarrache1908 I know, right. Makes total sense😜🤙

[@CSharp-hk9oc]

It greatly depends on the child. Some children are more situationally aware than others. I'd be more worried about him being hit by a car than being abducted.

[@radgraham]

@@CSharp-hk9oc especially if they are glued to their cell phone and not paying attention to their surroundings 🤙

[@leov1549]

I'm a younger Gen X '77. I remember riding my bike everywhere far and near. But I don't think I would let my daughter do the same, not because I think it is wrong (because I don't). But because my daughter is very innocent and doesn't have the malice to be on the lookout for trouble. So what I'm saying is that it all depends on the child and it's maturity and awareness.

[@radgraham]

@leov1549 yes 💯! My daughter is 21 and still is very timid. My youngest I would have no problem. He is super aware 9f his surroundings🤙🤙

[@michellefreeman7180]

thats crazy. back in our day if u lived within 2 miles u walked or parents took u. also neighbors looked after everyone's kids . if u done something wring 10 neighbors done called ur parents b4 u even made it home.

[@damoncrowfeather4655]

When I was around ten and out for summer break, our parents threw us out of the house at sunrise.. We were riding bikes, running and playing games, or climbing trees. At any one time, we were probably several miles from home, and didn't go home till dark. This lady didn't do anything wrong.

[@radgraham]

@@damoncrowfeather4655 agreed 💯 🤙

[@captsean660]

Born in the late 60s, kid in the seventies, I would walk ever how far I needed or wanted to walk. I would start walking to school while it was still dark out for maybe five miles one way in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth grades. And then I would ride my bike even farther. My son, around the same age twenty years ago, I probably wouldn't have liked the idea of him walking and going as far as I did. Gen X was/is more rowdy than the following generations so we could defend ourselves better if need be.

[@radgraham]

@captsean660 yeah. I wouldn't have let my kids go as far either but we're allowed to walk and ride bikes within reason.

[@GEN-X_POV]

This is total Bullsh!t. I just looked it up and walking from my house to Jr. High every day was 1.3miles. And this was in Illinois back in the 80's. I used to walk 1/2 mile every day to elementary school with my siblings or friends. And on that walk home one day a dude pulled up in a car, pulled a gun on me and asked for my wallet! Some would argue that's exactly why this story happened and the mom was arrested. Um, how about we focus on actually finding, prosecuting, and keeping criminals in jail so we can have a relatively safer society? Crazy thought, I know . . .

[@radgraham]

@GEN-X_POV I know right. Make common sense common again. My friends Mike and his brother Matt lived more than a mile away from me and I would ride my bike there almost daily.

[@GEN-X_POV]

@@radgraham exactly....total bullsh!t and I hope that case gets tossed out.

[@dreadassembly4087]

There wasn't as much social decay for us coming up. If you lived in the suburbs in the 70s and 80s, safety was something you could take for granite because we were compartmentalized in our little bubbles. My Grand Father left his keys in the ignition of his car and his car was there every morning. I did notice a big social change after 911. I started to pay attention to all the propaganda that wasn't as prevalent in the 80s. I tried to raise my kids with as little exposure to TV "programming" as possible, but because I hadn't actually used a computer until 2012, I had no idea what they were being exposed to when social media became a thing. Over socialization in a fake social environment is giving young people antisocial disorders.

[@radgraham]

@@dreadassembly4087 exactly. They don't know how to talk to people face to face anymore 🤙

[@ejs3379]

10-20 miles would bike walk etc as a kid this is nuts.

[@radgraham]

@@ejs3379 yep🤙

[@TPaine1776]

Where I live elementary kids walk to school all the time. Farther as well.

[@radgraham]

@@TPaine1776 that's the way it should be🤙🤙

[@WalterHildahl]

Absolutely unbelievable that she was arrested. Karen Cops!

[@radgraham]

@@WalterHildahl yep🤙

[@shanekelly3419]

Every parent in Wyoming would be in jail. This is madness!

[@radgraham]

@@shanekelly3419well said🤙

[@havocstormbringer1503]

It would have been nice if the cops asked the kid if he was okay, but to arrest the mom because the kid was walking is outrageous. I was walking up to to party store and back for my mom when I was younger than that, about as far, and in a bad neighborhood

[@radgraham]

@@havocstormbringer1503 yeah absolutely agree. Ask the kid if he's alright and be on their way🤙

[@ReznaQay]

i was born in 98 and i wasnt allowed to walk to the kroger

[@radgraham]

@@ReznaQay how far away was the Kroger? 🤙

[@erldude]

I think the punishment for her is a bit excessive. I don't think I was walking alone at 10,but that was also in NY or just hhow my parent were. . I don't know if that makes a difference vs a small town . I would usually walk with a friend till a certain age. And yea. I think we just hear about things so much more now.

[@radgraham]

@erldude exactly. Bad people were always around but at least now people have their technology 🤙

[@demonic7610]

I was born month/s away from being Gen X, even during the 90's this was every day no arrests, hell even in the early 2k's unless it was late at night or before 6 am cops never used to care. *edit* I will admit child obduction/attacks of any sort, I think have gone up a lot especially with how p3do's now get released so fast for very horrible acts. (then get caught doing same acts charged again but only get freed 3-5 years later)

[@radgraham]

@demonic7610 yep. It's the justice systems fault for a lot of that 🤙

[@demonic7610]

@@radgraham agreed the Justice System goes too hard on soft crime, but goes soft on hard crime.

[@GabrielScindian]

Damn I guess my parents would have been in jail for life

[@radgraham]

@GabrielScindian 😆🤣I know right lol🤙

[@RachelRothermund]

Is there a law stating a kid can't walk? I would have let you walk with a friend.

[@radgraham]

@RachelRothermund no law. Just cops claiming reckless endangerment. Pretty sad. You let me go wherever I wanted as long as I had a friend to go with. Sometimes those friends lived a mile away and I had to walk or ride my bike over there first.

[@mrbob4u495]

According to the officer, because the kid was 10, it is unlawful for the child to be walking about alone.

[@abelsanchez9914]

Although I probably wouldn’t let my kid walk alone for that distance and I don’t know all the facts I still don’t think law enforcement should have arrested her. Just my opinion.

[@radgraham]

@@abelsanchez9914 agreed. Simply ask if the kid is okay and protect the streets from criminals for him so he can walk in peace 🤙

[@bonneyraven5281]

Total B.S.!

[@radgraham]

@@bonneyraven5281 yep🤙

[@dannypahl829]

I think it’s bs my self 💯😜

[@radgraham]

@@dannypahl829 agreed 🤙

[@buzzsah]

Well, yes, we walked all over, school, to the gas station 2 miles away , 4 round trip.at age 9. But times are not as they were, when all the missing children, pedophiles, and in greater numbers, kid trafficking is much, much higher, and more. Now, with that said, when do you take the leach off your children? I hear it all the time, 16 year old has been kidnapped. If you try keep your kids in, or not allowing them to walk to a friends house, they can report you. In today system, I would not let a child walk along..

[@markhemphill6295]

I think that times have changed and with all the cases of kids going missing, parents need to be more responseable for their own children, and ensure they have propper supervission until babby sitting age? I think thirteen or fourteen is the legal age for being left alone at home, responseable enough to know what's right and wrong. It only takes one time for you to never see your loved one again, so protect them forever. Take care and God bless😇

[@DJFlemetakis]

Crime is down, the internet makes everything more easily accessible. So, it seems like it's not so, but it is. We grew up with missing children on our milk cartons. News was more local, we didn't have 24 7 news outlets. We grew up with come home when lights come on. This absolute bs, how are children suppose to grow up with a backbone without getting a few scrapes. That's why America is becoming the of the weak and easily offended.

[@daveh8316]

at 10 i was miles away from home on a 4 wheeler alone

[@radgraham]

@@daveh8316 yep 🤣😆badass🤙

[@user-jb4xv4im9o]

I was babysitting for the neighbors at 9. I grew up in a small farming town in the 50s, I walked just under a mile to school in second grade and ran all over town with friends at 7. You had to live a mile from the school to ride the bus. And I couldn't wear pants to school even in the winter.

[@daveh8316]

@@user-jb4xv4im9o yeah we didnt miss school unless a bus got stuck and it did not stop more than once in five miles for kids now they stop every few hundred feet small rural town here too but im 80's kid