Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town
Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town
It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in
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All of Gen-X would like a word...
'be home for supper' and/or 'call if you're gonna be late'.
those were mom's rules back then. she only got worried and upset if i was late and did not call.
Come in when the street lights turn on.
Don't go too far.
Locking the door and forcing a kid to ring the doorbell and beg to be let in after dark was just a thing back then. I hope the lack of any consequences and independence doesn't hurt American kids' development when, say, Romanian kids are still afforded freedom.
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Really? They're generally pretty quiet and forgetable.
Because we're independent AF. We don't need looking after. We're hardened by years of raw neglect 😅