Opinion | Should Letting Their Child Cross the Street Make Parents Felons? - The New York Times Highlight

to move beyond the overpolicing of parenting we’ve seen in the last 10 or 15 years. A Georgia mother who didn’t realize her 10-year-old boy had walked to the center of their small town and a South Carolina woman who let her 9-year-old daughter play in a well-populated park while she worked at a McDonald’s nearby faced criminal charges.