In December, a family in Silver Spring, Maryland, a well-to-do suburb of Washington, D.C., allowed their two children to walk home alone from a local park. Parents Danielle and Alexander Meitiv say they are raising their kids, ages six and ten, to be independent, "free range" kids, enjoying an old-fashioned upbringing featuring both free play and personal responsibility.
Though the Meitivs are right that children are safer now than they have been in decades, local police disagreed. The family is now under investigation for allowing the unchaperoned one-mile walk.
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