{"id":9613,"date":"2015-04-15T21:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T01:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9613"},"modified":"2015-04-15T21:54:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T01:54:23","slug":"seven-reasons-we-hate-free-range-parenting-megan-mcardle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/04\/seven-reasons-we-hate-free-range-parenting-megan-mcardle.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Seven Reasons We Hate Free-Range Parenting&#8221;: Megan McArdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026Why has America gone lunatic on the subject of unattended children? Parents hover over their kids as if every step might be their last. If they don\u2019t hover, strangers do, calling the police to report\u00a0any parent who leaves their child to run into the store for a few minutes. What\u2019s truly strange is that the parents who are doing this were themselves left to their own devices in cars, allowed to ride their bikes and walk to the store unsupervised, and otherwise given the (limited) freedom that they are now determined to deny their own kids. The police are making arrests that would have branded their own parents as criminals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-04-13\/seven-reasons-we-hate-free-range-parenting\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>writes: \u2026Why has America gone lunatic on the subject of unattended children? Parents hover over their kids as if every step might be their last. If they don\u2019t hover, strangers do, calling the police to report\u00a0any parent who leaves their child to run into the store for a few minutes. What\u2019s truly strange is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,121,306,222,51],"class_list":["post-9613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-children-will-listen","tag-doctors-and-policemen","tag-megan-mcardle","tag-progress-is-perverse","tag-so-far-from-god-so-close-to-the-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Seven Reasons We Hate Free-Range Parenting&quot;: Megan McArdle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"writes: ...Why has America gone lunatic on the subject of unattended children? Parents hover over their kids as if every step might be their last. 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