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6 Year old drives to school
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7816511.stm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLqBNO-O2g
Question is .. was it right to take their kids off of them and charge the parent's with child endangerment?
From what's I've read the parents were asleep and I think it's amazing any kid loves school that much .. so I don't see what benefit there is to charging the parents.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLqBNO-O2g
Question is .. was it right to take their kids off of them and charge the parent's with child endangerment?
From what's I've read the parents were asleep and I think it's amazing any kid loves school that much .. so I don't see what benefit there is to charging the parents.
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Well most cars in the US are automatic, so the actual control is rather easy. Once in drive you have an accelerator, a steering wheel and a brake.
And no i don't believe the kids shoul have been put in protective custody.
Maybe a court ordered parenting course followed by some monitoring for a few months would have been more appropriate
Still, not as serious as the 4 year old kid who fetched his father's shotgun after his his babysitter accidentally stepped on his foot, and shot her
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4142910/Four-year-old-shoots-babysitter-who-stood-on-his-foot.html
Now, that might be a more appropriate case for taking the child into custody...
Hows it obviously neglect? I mean it could be but seems a bit presumptious to say it's obviously neglect when the only information we know is his mum was asleep and he took the keys and drove off.
So if one of my kids randomly decides one day to do the same thing at 3am in the morning (when you expect me to be asleep) and i dont find out till i get a knock on the door, then I should have my kids taken from me?
Stating the child had missed the bus, makes me think he should have been on his way to school...how can a mother expect a 6 year old to get up on his own and get himself ready (which again leads me back to the above question).
As bizarre as the US frequently is, I am sure they had their reasons for the charge.
Although I suppose up front it looks quite cute, 'ahhh look a the little lad wanting to go to school' can you imagine being a driver on the same road as him, and the fear you would have felt as he came flying passed?
Or, how he easily could have killed himself?
Now I do in a sense agree with Mr G, and if the circumstances had been different, then possibly it should have been a different outcome but it wasn't. The child should have been on his way to school, and a 6 year old should not be getting himself ready and on a bus on his way.
It's not as though the mother wasn't there for him. He just decided not wake here and tell her there was a problem
Don't be an idiot.
What you going to do, lock them up at night?
You really are daft some times. If this had happened here then I expect the parents would have been arrested and made to attend parenting classes, something that whilst it's distressing in the short term, will in the long run improve things in the family.
The child wasn't hurt, neither was anyone else, it was an accident. What good is going to come out of putting it in a vastly under-developed care system? Bugger all and I expect it'll make things worse.
agreed.
More serious than deciding to drive a car, some would say
I don't know all the facts, so I can't really judge, but I don't think the kids should have been taken away on those grounds alone.