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Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town (reason.com)

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What I am wondering is what this publication is leaving out of the story in order to sell their perspective on everything. Maybe it's nothing and this really is just a DCFS gone mad (there are certainly cases in which this is true), or maybe there's more to the story and they are just glazing over it to make things sound better to their point of view.

Either way, this is a Republican run state which is the party that likes to court libertarians so I am pretty skeptical of everything regarding this.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I've heard this story before, it's not a new incident. It's also getting a lot of coverage from lots of media.

2022: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/texas-child-protective-services-waco-heather-wallace-b2226799.html

2014: https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/07/debra-harrell-arrested-for-letting-her-9-year-old-daughter-go-to-the-park-alone.html

2015: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parents-investigated-letting-children-walk-alone/25700823/

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republican run state which is the party that likes to court libertarians

Hasn't the last 20 years or so proven their actions very differently from their claims?

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Cognitive dissonance. People (especially libertarians) don't associate Republicans with regulations and laws controlling people's behavior even though Republicans are deep in bed with religious movements that are trying to codify the Bible as law.