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Topic: free range parenting

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This is parenting in the age of fear

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Shaun King (YouTube/The Young Turks)

Shaun King says trolls "weaponized" CPS

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Kate Tuttle - DAME
The Naugler Family (blessedlittlehomestead.org)

Free-range or neglectful?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Arrested for good parenting

Lenore Skenazy
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-256486p1.html'>Mathom</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Go ahead, leave her in the car

Lenore Skenazy
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I also left my kid in the car

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-221737p1.html'>Rafal Olechowski</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-85p1.html'>Melissa King</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The rise of mother shaming

Kim Brooks
("The Today Show")

We've criminalized childhood

Lenore Skenazy
Danielle Meitiv, with her children Dvora and Rafi (Today Show)

Free range family fights back

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Guilty of riding a bike

Lenore Skenazy
Nicole Gainey (WGN)

"I was letting him go play."

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Debra Harrell

What's a mom to do?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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