Without further ado, here are 10 stories from 2024 that drove free-range parents crazy.
Child Reported Walking: As Reason was the very first to report, authorities charged Georgia mom Brittany Patterson with "reckless conduct" after her son, age 10, walked to town—population 370—without telling her. The cops came to her home, handcuffed her in front of her kids, and threw her in jail. (Talk about reckless conduct.) Child services then tried to require Patterson to track her child at all times.
