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Open the link for the interview with the mother.

 

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Published January 16, 2015

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A Maryland couple that believes in "free-range parenting" said they are being investigated for child neglect after police picked up their children, ages 6 and 10, walking home alone from a park.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that the kids were walking home from the park, which is about a mile from their Woodside Park neighborhood, in broad daylight last month and were stopped by police after someone reported seeing them.

The kids were returned to the home and police reportedly talked to the parents about the dangers of the world.

Police reportedly did not have information on the case, but told the paper it has a "responsibility as a part of our duty to check on people's welfare."

The parents, Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, said they would not let their son and daughter walk home alone if they didn't think the kids were ready.

"The world is actually even safer than when I was a child, and I just want to give them the same freedom and independence that I had — basically an old-fashioned childhood," Danielle, a climate-science consultant, told the paper. The report said the kids would often carry a laminated card that states "I am not lost. I am a free-range kid."

But the story did not end there. The Montgomery County Child Protective Services reportedly followed up and forced the parents to sign a safety plan acknowledging that they would not let the kids go unsupervised. Alexander told the paper he resisted at first, but CPS threatened that if they refused, the kids would be removed from the home.  He signed.

The agency, which does not comment on current investigations,  reportedly followed up and began an investigation, requesting to examine the house and even interviewing the children at school.

"We feel we're being bullied into a point of view about child-rearing that we strongly disagree with," Alexander said. The parents say they just want to teach their children to be self-reliant. 

"The riskiest thing we can do with our kids is put them in a car," Danielle told "Fox & Friends" on Friday. "We do that because we realize that some risks are worth taking."

 

The couple plans on meeting with CPS next week.

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This is so stupid. And it demonstrates the over reach of governmental agencies.

How far were they from home? What were the conditions?

If they were 20 miles from home and it was zero out with a foot of snow, then yeah. That aint right. But to threaten to take the kids for not signing a paper?

And now that the CPS is involved, anything that happens at school with those kids, will be reported to CPS. Probably first before the parents.

Too many times CPS gets involved with these kinds of things and they miss the real problems that other kids are living with.

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I agree this was insanity. It said the park was a mile from home, so at most they were a mile away. Around here, if you love within a mile from school, you are walking. What's the big deal?

The govt needs to concentrate on people who are actually neglecting their kids and let this go.

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My elementary school was exactly 7/10ths of a mile from home. I walked to and from Kindergarten alone, at age five.

 



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My middle school was .95 of a mile and I crossed 3 major interstates to get to the 5th grade. My m didn't like it, but the bus would NOT come if you were within a mile. So I walked. And lived.

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Yep, more parents getting into trouble for, you know, parenting. Heaven forbid we actually raise our children.

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Slippery slope to charge these parent s with anything. Needs to be stopped.

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