FREE RANGE KIDS

[FAHQTOO]

That man needs to learn to keep his mouse in the house. That baby so does not want to be in that picture. That picture is going to come back and embarrass those kids when they are older.

Something else we agree on...dammit!. Stop acting like you're sane...it doesn't fit you at all.

[ZEROSPHERES]

Its their begging on Facebook.

I didn't see any begging on the page I was reading so if you have a link I'd really like to read it too.

http://www.gofundme.com/savekyfamily

[Duchess]

Yeah, Zero, that's the gofundme page I referred to up there ^^^^^. Was that started by a friend of the family or the family themselves? As I said, I am under the impression that a friend of the family started it, am I wrong?

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't consider this family to be champions for free range kids and homeschooling.

10 kids and counting, living in the dirt, dad pulling a gun on the neighbor, a GoFundMe page with over $40,000 in donations.

I won't tell these parents how to raise their kids as long as they do it safely. But, I don't get a good feeling about them based on the little that's known and just hope the best for the kids.

[Duchess]

I think anyone with that many kids is nuts to begin with and then to raise them in what is little more than a mud hut is even crazier. They aren't the Ingalls, that's for sure.

[ZEROSPHERES]

Yeah, Zero, that's the gofundme page I referred to up there ^^^^^. Was that started by a friend of the family or the family themselves? As I said, I am under the impression that a friend of the family started it, am I wrong?

Duch, Not sure. It could be a friend who wants to help. The relief they seek is a vehicle, and a structure with running water and electricity, laptops and phones. If the dad was a provider, which he is not, he would be doing more than just keeping his wife barefoot and pregnant. This poor example of parenting is the value I see as a bad example for the kids and it's compounded by asking the public to come and do that which he sees no value in doing for himself or for those he professes to love.

[ZEROSPHERES]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...court.html

[IroningBroad]

It appears they have been very busy screwing for the last 11 years. I assumed the parents were taking the high road when perhaps they are taking the path of least resistance. I'm waiting for Aussie's input. She knows everything about everybody.

This made me laugh ridiculously hard.

[aussiefriend]

You never hear of filthy rich people living like apes. It's also lazy arse layabouts who are like trojans with their sperm.

[aussiefriend]

It appears they have been very busy screwing for the last 11 years. I assumed the parents were taking the high road when perhaps they are taking the path of least resistance. I'm waiting for Aussie's input. She knows everything about everybody.

This made me laugh ridiculously hard.

I've already given my input Einstein. Try and keep up you idiot. And who the fucking hell are you anyway?

[Midwest Spy]

It appears they have been very busy screwing for the last 11 years. I assumed the parents were taking the high road when perhaps they are taking the path of least resistance. I'm waiting for Aussie's input. She knows everything about everybody.

This made me laugh ridiculously hard.

I've already given my input Einstein. Try and keep up you idiot. And who the fucking hell are you anyway?

She's another Mock hottie with big tits that needs an MS fix every few days.

Happy now?

[ZEROSPHERES]

CPS should have stepped in after one kid. Like they did with me.

FIFY

[Cutz]

You never hear of filthy rich people living like apes.

Actually I have. Ricky Williams, recipient of a 9 million dollar signing bonus, left football to live in Australia like this...

[Duchess]

Were y'all aware that parents can be charged with "unsubstantiated" neglect? I'm not defending sucky parenting but that's fucked up.

[crash]

The living in a filthy little cabin is not ok.

Dong ever move to China then, Rosy Ramjet

[username]

I still have a CPS/Social Worker checking in on my son. Poor kid. He's attending a private school to make up the credits he missed this semester that has a therapist on staff PLUS an LMFT who makes sure he eats what we pack him for lunch/snack at school. It's costing us around $12k/semester. Plus we're taking him to an M.D. every week (or, at minimum, every other week) to have his weight, heart rate checked etc.

Poor, poor neglected kid.

She's already reassured me that she doesn't see neglect but I think they have to keep the case open for 30 days AND she'd like to see him in some formal, mental health treatment program. I've been considering one that's 3-4 days/week (because while the kid is healthy, he STILL needs to put on weight faster than he is) but they haven't had an opening yet. Maybe I'll just sign him up for some once a week therapy session to fully get this lady off my back.

[HairOfTheDog]

the recent news reports of the parents who got in trouble for letting their two kids walk home from the park, a couple blocks from their suburban home,ALONE.

CPS took their kids. One kid is 6 and the other is 10. A cop picked them up as they were walking home, he told them he was taking them home but that's not what he did. They sat in the cop car for over two hours and then the cop took them to CPS. I think that's overstepping, big time!

I was glad to see that the charges have been dropped against the Meitivs and the "neglect" policies have been clarified in Silver Spring, Maryland.


Their kids were simply given permission to walk together home from the park and the bus stop -- that's what started the whole shitstorm, police detention, and CPS case.

The parents were cleared of "neglect" this month and now the policies state that children can't be considered neglected if they are walking alone but are not harmed nor put in harm's way. That's good, IMO.

I mean, if the 6-year-old had been wandering the streets alone in the dark or if she and her 10-year-old brother had been forced to walk 10 miles in the rain or something, I'd consider that neglect.

But, kids that age ("free range" or otherwise) walking a short distance in a familiar area together is not a matter for law enforcement in my eyes.

[Duchess]

walking a short distance in a familiar area together is not a matter for law enforcement in my eyes.

Of course it's not.

Sometimes I wonder why even a little bit of common sense is too much to ask for.