It’s just a catch-all news community.

CPS and the police did investigate Lyndsey Clancy considering she's currently on trial. These authorities are using the same level of scrutiny and prosecution against this mother as they did Clancy which is clearly too much.

Headline is confusing. Mother is from Virginia, event occurred in Utah.

I saw this play out with the family that used to live across the street from us. In the 90s, helicopter parenting was a new, shameful thing - and this family was all-in on it. There was only one house between theirs and the bus stop on the corner, yet the mom would drive her kids there and have them sit in the car with her instead of standing outside like the rest of us.

They never took walks or rode bikes around the neighborhood. They never went to the playground alone, even though it was literally at the end of our street.

My family had much more freedom - one of my older brothers was so comfortable with his surroundings that he even drew a map of our neighborhood from memory. I remember using that map when I first started riding my bike alone. We developed strong senses of direction that continue to benefit us today.

Anyway, one day the oldest kid was playing with my brothers. As a group, they decided to go to the playground. When it was time to go home, my brothers decided to take the long way around the block (instead of the straight way down our street.) They were almost home, only maybe 500 feet (about 150 meters) from the same bus stop corner I mentioned earlier, when this kid started flipping out, bawling his eyes out that they "were lost." The kid was so sheltered, he couldn't recognize the bus stop he'd been waiting at every school day for years by that point, just because they approached it from a different direction.

Nowadays, that kid's an adult who only ever leaves home for work. He's around 35 years old, and both him and his younger brother still live with their parents and isolate themselves. Ever since Covid, they do Halloween by setting up a candy chute through a window on their door so they don't have to open it and interact with anyone. It made sense in 2020, now it's just another way for them to avoid interacting with the rest of the world.

I wish I could say I was surprised, but really I'm just sad for them.

...going to produce adults with terrible anxiety disorders?! I think that ship has sailed.

Thankfully in reasonable places there's help for that. It would be nice if we could stop passing out abuse and enhancing it in our kids though. Those of you that have kids anyways.

It also about liability, and wanting protect yourself from it. The USA is such a crazy litigious place

And people act all confused as to why children don't play outside as often. Because people call the fucking cops on mothers.