Remember a time when children could walk home from school alone without the parents being called negligent? When kids could take a trip to the store alone without the cops being called? These days seem to be waning as more and more harmless activities are being criminalized by the nanny state, which thinks it knows how to parent your kids better than you can.
Just a few months ago parents were investigated for letting their kids walk home from school alone. And now, it’s illegal to let your kid play basketball in the front yard when you’re not home.
There needs to be adults present when children play out side. That is the objection , here i believe .There have been so many small children grabbed from their front yard. I know parents are glad they want to go outside, but lets be honest , most small children will go with a stranger if offered money or some other attraction , and some people don’t care, just leave them any where. In the car, in 100 Degree heat with the windows rolled up.
Screw the “neighbors”.
Now days my parents would probably get into trouble if I were a paper boy in the 7th grade like I was back in the day.
time for this liberal PC government to get the hell out of our lives
OMG are they serious please.
That is so dumb let kids ply in the front yard & the neighbors need to keep there nose out of it if the child was being kidnapped that would be one thing but just playing basketball in his front yard till his parents got home is none of there concern they need to get a life
Hey we barbecue in our front yard and have our swimming pool in the front yard too.You know why? because our backyard is a hill ..
they should at least be aloud to play in there own yard and not have to see their parents go to jail .
That is Retarded
We played in the front yard of the whole neighborhood when I was a little kid.