[metric10]

In Colorado a law was recently passed to deal with this. According to [0]:

"During its initial committee hearing, sponsoring state Rep. Mary Young, D-Greeley, said allegations of neglect or lack of supervision have been on the rise in Colorado, even as the number of substantiated cases are dropping. In 2019, there were 3,854 allegations of lack of supervision; 82%, or 3,169, were unfounded, she said."

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/31/colorado-reasonable-in...

edit: more context to quote

[evo_9]

Not to toot our Colorado horn too loudly here but I really feel like this state, my home state, is one of the few sane places left in the US (but seriously please don't move here haha).

[zarzavat]

It’s bittersweet, don’t you think? On the one hand, it’s good that such a law was supported at the highest levels. However, in truly sane places, there are no such laws because the police would never think to involve themselves in such a matter in the first place.

Some social norms have clearly disintegrated, but now there is a law to patch it up.

The reasons why the social norm disintegrated in the first place remain unresolved.

[test6554]

As a Texan,

*compulsively scratches neck*

"can we get some of that sanity"

[indecisive_user]

A few other states passed similar laws, including Oklahoma and Texas. Seems absurd that we need to pass laws that let children play outside unsupervised.

https://reason.com/2021/04/29/reasonable-childhood-independe...

[seventytwo]

Actual bipartisanship. Nice.