sonoftony
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I was taking the subway at 9 years old. 'Murrica getting soft b 
Working mom arrested for letting her 9 year old play alone at park
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I'm sayin thoughdawg ive seen 9 year olds damn near fully responsible for their 5 year old siblings.
At 9 I knew how to clean up the house
Cook oatmeal, eggs, basically a whole breakfast
**** at 9 I used to walk around with an incent to light my own fire crackers and bottle rockets
At 9 I was taking public transit
Damn man I love my mom
She taught me so much ****
I'm 28 now
And it's so many things that she has taught me
That I don't even realize and take for granted.
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I think there is just a difference in how we treat boys and girls. All of us saying "I use to ...... when i was nine", but we are males and we receive certain privileges that our female counter parts do not. Females are treated with more protection than males in most societies, I think if she would have left her 9 y/o son at the park alone it wouldn't have been an issue.
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Come on the first line says "a 46 year old black woman"
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If the parents were rich, they can afford babysitters or some sort of day care during the day.
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I would never leave my 9 yr old DAUGHTER alone anywhere unsupervised, maybe a son. I legit see lil girls no older than 6 walking around the neighborhood alone and I just smh
I used to walk home from school to my Gma crib when I was in 1st grade but I was with my friends and fam, only thing I feared was a loose pit or rott.
I used to walk home from school to my Gma crib when I was in 1st grade but I was with my friends and fam, only thing I feared was a loose pit or rott.
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i think decisions like this are made to avoid future legal problems
i think this train of thought has screwed up a lot of things
i think this train of thought has screwed up a lot of things
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I wonder if she was a
We pick on poor people and minorities way too much. Smh.
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antidope
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When I was 9 I was going to the park alone, but 1998 is different from 2014.
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I was home alone after school ding chores, homework, etc. at 9.
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I was at a friend's house after school watching '70's porn at 9.
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I keep reading "when I was 9" could do blank.
Dukes left me and my 2 brothers alone while she worked but we lived a neighborhood where everyone looked out.
Soooo many unknown variables to this story to make assumptions.
Depending on them, this could be way overblown or an extremely dangerous situation for the child.
Dukes left me and my 2 brothers alone while she worked but we lived a neighborhood where everyone looked out.
Soooo many unknown variables to this story to make assumptions.
Depending on them, this could be way overblown or an extremely dangerous situation for the child.
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No it wasn't.
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I honestly do not think crime is different. Statistics show that crime has been on the decline in all major cities in the past 20 years. It's just that we have so many more media outlets that child abductions are the first thing to report so we perceive these times to be worse than previous.
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9 isn't too young to be at the park, I guess they want you to wait til you outgrow the park to go the park.
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i am on the fence on this one, i still need to think about it.
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yeah the fact it was a girl was bad i guess...a boy left alone at the park is balling & having fun
but a poor helpless girl is a cry for help
but a poor helpless girl is a cry for help
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A 9 year old boy and a 9 year girl aren't any different to me, hell if anything a little boy is more liable to do some dumb ish
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Ehhh, I mean was this what she did everytime? It's just really not a good idea at all. Maybe I missed it but why didn't she just leave the kid at home?
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I hear what you guys are saying, but the difference between you and the mom in this instance is the fact that she didn't have a choice. Nobody would willingly want to send their 9yr old to the park, or anywhere for that matter by themselves. So it is easy to say "I would never............" I'm sure she didn't want to send her daughter to the park, but unfortunately for her she didn't have much of choice.
It is a tough pill to swallow because their are so many variables involved. I just feel like the cops jumped the gun by arresting the mom. Every situation is different, and should be treated as such. Even if CPS or whatever it they are called in her State got involved, a thorough investigation should reveal no bad intent on the mom's part. They are quick to disrupt a decent home, but let the most vile "parents" retain custody of kids.
antidope
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Wasn't a reference to crime, but what is considered to be good parenting. Nowadays if you leave any kind under 13 alone you're a bad parent, its even a crime in some states to my knowledge.
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9 isn't too young to be at the park, I guess they want you to wait til you outgrow the park to go the park.
Walking down the street to the park to play and a child at the park for 8 hrs are two seperated things.
Don't understand how y'all don't see that.
The thought of leaving my daughter alone for 8 hours at the park is unthinkable.
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It wasn't what she did everytime. She brought her daughter to work to play on a laptop but apparently the laptop got stolen.
When did it become illegal to play at the park by yourself at 9? If it was nighttime I would understand
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As it should be.
We always asking where were the parents every time a kid gets into trouble don't we?
Kids need adult supervision period.
Don't assume because you did it makes it ok.
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My moms woulda been doing life by now...
