When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering
www.theatlantic.com
Raising independent kids shouldn’t be this hard.
  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    321·
    2 days ago

    I feel like I am in a Monty Python sketch right now. She “contributed to delinquency” because he could have gotten in trouble that he didn’t get into if things had gone entirely differently?

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      331·
      2 days ago

      Yes.

      The government decided that children that young should be supervised. She failed to provide that supervision.

      The child coming back safe that time doesn’t count- it’s a dangerous world.

      • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        191·
        2 days ago

        But they didn’t charge her with endangering him, that’s a different thing.

        Edit to add: And I suspect they didn’t because he was, self evidently, not in danger. So I remain confused about why this became an entire affair.

        • dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish
          81·
          2 days ago

          Because prosecutors are elected in the US, they do all kinds of stupid things.

      • dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish
        91·
        2 days ago

        The government decided that children that young should be supervised.

        And we all know that the government is always just and never gets it wrong.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          312·
          2 days ago

          did I say the government was right?

          the good news here is that, as part of that government by means of voting, you can go and change yours.

          • dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            did I say the government was right?

            That was heavily implied by what you wrote, yes.

            the good news here is that, as part of that government by means of voting, you can go and change yours.

            I live in a well governed country, this case would never get as far as prosecution where I live.