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Lenore Skenazy

A New Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Protect Free-Range Parenting and Redefine Neglect

A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress yesterday pushes states to "promote childhood independence" rather than investigate or punish the parents who permit it.

The bill lists seven examples of decent parents investigated for letting their kids play outside, bike, walk to the store, etc. Five of these stories were first reported in Reason.

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