Mother of 10 year old arrested for letting him walk to store alone

[rightwinger]

A mother left her ten year old son alone while she took his brother to a doctors appointment. While alone, the kid walked to a nearby store a mile away. Someone reported it and the cops picked up the kid and arrested the mother.

https://thespun.com/trending/mom-arrested-for-letting-10-year-old-walk-home-alone-speaks-out

Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested last month. The Georgia mom was taken into custody and hit with "child endangerment-related charges" by the Fannin County Sheriff’s Department on Oct. 30. She had allowed one of her four kids, a 10 year old, to walk home alone.

 

[rightwinger]

The reality is as parents we should have that autonomy whether we want to wrap our kids in bubble wrap or whether we want to give our kids a little more freedom and autonomy,” Patterson said.

“It should be our decision as parents, and not the decision of some government authority who doesn’t even know our kids or know our family.”

 

[debbiedowner]

The Karen that reported this would have had a fit back in the late and early 50's. My mom would send me to the store with a note to buy her cigarettes when I was 7 years old, yes the store was only about 2 blocks. I walked over 2 miles alone to school every morning as well as many other kids. Karen's need to get a fucking life. Yes, today's world is not as safe as back then but ....

 

[rightwinger]

The Karen that reported this would have had a fit back in the late and early 50's. My mom would send me to the store with a note to buy her cigarettes when I was 7 years old, yes the store was only about 2 blocks. I walked over 2 miles alone to school every morning as well as many other kids. Karen's need to get a fucking life. Yes, today's world is not as safe as back then but ....

My Aunt used to send me to a corner store to buy cigarettes at that age too. I would just say they were for my Aunt Betty

I remember walking to school at age 6 and crossing a busy highway.

 

[debbiedowner]

I'm really surprised the town Iive in, (which has more Karen's you can imagine) doesn't have reports like this one as there are kids as young as 7 on up walking around here all the time.

 

[debbiedowner]

My Aunt used to send me to a corner store to buy cigarettes at that age too. I would just say they were for my Aunt Betty

I remember walking to school at age 6 and crossing a busy highway.

Part of the problem today is everyone wants to get in your business. Yes, report if you see a kid being abducted or hurt in someway but otherwise keep your nose out of it.

 

[pknopp]

A mother of four who was arrested in front of her children for letting her 10-year-old son walk home alone is speaking out.

Patterson's son, Sorren, was 10 years old when he walked less than a mile into town,

Just a peeve of mine. Lousy articles. Article is full of contradictions.

She didn't allow him but did note she would have. He wasn't walking home, he was walking into town. The article notes all of it in the article.

But the kid is lucky he wasn't jumped and injected with something.

 

[rightwinger]

I live next to a schools athletic field with baseball, soccer and basketball courts.
I rarely see kids out there playing pickup games without adult supervision.

The idea that kids can play on their own, make up their own rules and function without an adult telling them what to do is beyond them

 

[wamose]

My aunt dropped me, 13 yrs old, and her two kids, 8 and 9 yrs old, off at the NY Worlds Fair in 64. We all had our own money but it was my job to watch them since I was there before. We were there all day and got picked up by my aunt at a designated time and spot. No problems except for me having to deprive my cousin of buying an orange soda, yuk, in order to have enough money to go on 'It's a Small World'. Today, my aunt would get the chair for something like that.

 

[sealybobo]

The reality is as parents we should have that autonomy whether we want to wrap our kids in bubble wrap or whether we want to give our kids a little more freedom and autonomy,” Patterson said.

“It should be our decision as parents, and not the decision of some government authority who doesn’t even know our kids or know our family.”

• 14 years: Illinois
• 12 years: Delaware and Colorado
• 11 years: Michigan
• 10 years: Washington, Tennessee, Oregon, and New Mexico
• 9 years: North Dakota
• 8 years: North Carolina, Maryland, and Georgia
• 6 years: Kansas
• No age limit: the remaining 37 states

Many states will not set a specific age limit. They will instead review circumstances case by case. Most states have guidelines you can use to determine whether your child is ready to be left home alone.

Factors to consider may include:

• The child's age and maturity
• The overall safety of the surrounding area/circumstances
• The arrangements made to secure the child's safety

 

[sealybobo]

I live next to a schools athletic field with baseball, soccer and basketball courts.
I rarely see kids out there playing pickup games without adult supervision.

The idea that kids can play on their own, make up their own rules and function without an adult telling them what to do is beyond them

• No age limit: 37 states

Red states make you have the kid but after that you don't have to watch it. LOL. Actually California doesn't have an age.

 

[sealybobo]

I live next to a schools athletic field with baseball, soccer and basketball courts.
I rarely see kids out there playing pickup games without adult supervision.

The idea that kids can play on their own, make up their own rules and function without an adult telling them what to do is beyond them

I'm not allowed to live next to a school. LOL.

 

[rightwinger]

• 14 years: Illinois
• 12 years: Delaware and Colorado
• 11 years: Michigan
• 10 years: Washington, Tennessee, Oregon, and New Mexico
• 9 years: North Dakota
• 8 years: North Carolina, Maryland, and Georgia
• 6 years: Kansas
• No age limit: the remaining 37 states

Many states will not set a specific age limit. They will instead review circumstances case by case. Most states have guidelines you can use to determine whether your child is ready to be left home alone.

Factors to consider may include:

• The child's age and maturity
• The overall safety of the surrounding area/circumstances
• The arrangements made to secure the child's safety

It should be up to the parents to decide the maturity of their child, how responsible, do they get in trouble if not supervised and how safe your neighborhood is.
Start the kid small then increase their freedom

 

[petro]

My Aunt used to send me to a corner store to buy cigarettes at that age too. I would just say they were for my Aunt Betty

I remember walking to school at age 6 and crossing a busy highway.

Yup.
I was another note carrier for mom's smokes.
I would get the change for candy, when candy could actually be bought with change.
About age 11 I was a latch key kid, in charge of getting my ass ready for school and coming home alone for a few hours.

 

[sealybobo]

It should be up to the parents to decide the maturity of their child, how responsible, do they get in trouble if not supervised and how safe your neighborhood is.
Start the kid small then increase their freedom

Well what you said is true in 37 states. The other states have age limits. Which I will agree, are obviously random. Kansas is 6 Illinois is 14? So it's illegal for a 13 year old to stay alone in Illinois but a 6 year old in Kansas can? That alone proves your point.

 

[rightwinger]

Yup.
I was another note carrier for mom's smokes.
I would get the change for candy, when candy could actually be bought with change.
About age 11 I was a latch key kid, in charge of getting my ass ready for school and coming home alone for a few hours.

When I was 12, we used to go camping on our own.
Grab a tent, a sleeping bag, hot dogs to eat, cigarettes and maybe a Playboy if we could get one.

 

[petro]

When I was 12, we used to go camping on our own.
Grab a tent, a sleeping bag, hot dogs to eat, cigarettes and maybe a Playboy if we could get one.

I remember scoring a stack of Playboys in someone's garbage. We kept that goldmine in a fort we built in the woods.

 

[sealybobo]

Yup.
I was another note carrier for mom's smokes.
I would get the change for candy, when candy could actually be bought with change.
About age 11 I was a latch key kid, in charge of getting my ass ready for school and coming home alone for a few hours.

Consider this

The United States' population in 1970 was 203,392,031.

2024, the U.S. population was estimated to be 335,893,238

So of course crime is up. More people means more criminals.

 

[sealybobo]

When I was 12, we used to go camping on our own.
Grab a tent, a sleeping bag, hot dogs to eat, cigarettes and maybe a Playboy if we could get one.

You weren't alone.

 

[eagle1462010]

I walked miles as a kid to stores. Was common


We live in a world of Karen and stupid laws