Parents urged to support free-range family and allow children to walk home alone
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A Maryland couple is gaining support on their views of what's called "free-range" parenting and now May 9 has been declared by those supporters as "Take your kids to the park...and let them walk home by themselves day."
Danielle and Alexander Meitiv are under investigation for a second time for allowing their children, age 6 and 10, to walk home alone from a neighborhood park according to multiple news outlets, including Fox News.
Now the group Empower Kids Maryland is taking a stand and asking parents to allow their children to walk home by themselves, if parents think their children are ready for the responsibility.
The Washington Post recently published an article that claimed that there has not been a safer time in America for children. The article cited child mortality rates, comparing 1935, where 450 deaths for every 100,000 children aged 1 to 4, to now where the number decreased dramatically to fewer than 30 deaths for every 100,000 children.
Fox News said Judge Alex Ferrer said it was "insane" to announce that children will walk home from a park with out their parents, worrying that the information will be used by the "wrong people."
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