CPS: Mom Can’t Let Her 3 Kids—Ages 6, 8, and 9—Play Outside by Themselves
by Lenore Skenazy Pearisburg, Virginia, social services says kids must be watched—at all times—until they turn 13. Emily Fields’ three kids—a boy, age four, and two girls, ages 6 and 8—were playing outside. The Fields live in the quiet town of Pearisburg in rural western Virginia. It was there, on a May afternoon in 2021, that Fields’ 4-year-old kicked a soccer ball across the road toward the neighbor’s cat, which he avoided hitting. The neighbors yelled at him and took his ball. But it didn’t end there. “My sister had actually been outside, watching them,” says Fields, who homeschools...
by Lenore Skenazy Pearisburg, Virginia, social services says kids must be watched—at all times—until they turn 13. Emily Fields’ three kids—a boy, age four, and two girls, ages 6 and 8—were playing outside. The Fields live in the quiet...
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