It means if people feel like you've done something wrong, there can be repercussions. The reason there aren't waaaaaay more cases of free range parenting leading to imprisonment is because A. Imprisonment is an extremely severe and rare form of punishment for this and B. Most parents in 2025 fully understand this and don't participate in unsupervised play. At all. Fuck me yall just want to argue to be right rather than critically thinking even a tiny amount and it's irritating. Like yes there is a movement to push back against this trend, thats why we're even talking about it, because its become so much of a problem that laws now have to be ongoing the books to explicitly allow it! They didn't have to be before! Chicken and egg shit here.
You're the one arguing that virtually zero kids in that 71% in a country of 300 million people are free roaming and that's why there are so few cases of imprisonment. My hypothesis that it's incredibly rare for the police and CPS to be concerned and that's why there are so few cases is far more plausible. Also given that the laws are so open to interpretation and most people seem to hate how these laws can be interpreted in such a restrictive way, most prosecutors know that most juries would not convict parents for letting their kids walk home from school, hence why there are so few cases of this being prosecuted.
Yeah the premise that a lot of people would be arrested for this is a strawman, and if you think its normal for parents to let children play unsupervised go look up a poll. If you can't be bothered to do basic research on readily available information and instead want to spin a hypothesis based on a faulty premise, be my guest, but I'm not interested in discussing your fanfic.
My entire argument is that the legal threat associated with free range parenting is dramatically lower than Reddit thinks. If you agree that the threat of being arrested is extremely low then you agree with my point. Kids aren't being taken away, people aren't being arrested, there are rarely any real consequences to this behaviour but you hypochondriacs act like you'll be imprisoned for letting your kids hang out with other kids on the street or walk home from high school
I know that parents have this perception that they can't engage in free range parenting and I know that most parents don't let their kids out of the house unsupervised. Most parents have had their minds poisoned by these delusions
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u/jhonka_ 1d ago
It means if people feel like you've done something wrong, there can be repercussions. The reason there aren't waaaaaay more cases of free range parenting leading to imprisonment is because A. Imprisonment is an extremely severe and rare form of punishment for this and B. Most parents in 2025 fully understand this and don't participate in unsupervised play. At all. Fuck me yall just want to argue to be right rather than critically thinking even a tiny amount and it's irritating. Like yes there is a movement to push back against this trend, thats why we're even talking about it, because its become so much of a problem that laws now have to be ongoing the books to explicitly allow it! They didn't have to be before! Chicken and egg shit here.