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5 Things Our Parents Did That Would Get Them Arrested Today

5 Things Our Parents Did That Would Get Them Arrested Today

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by: FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 8:17am  
Taking PhotosYour parents probably have dozens of cute photos of you as a tyke sporting nothing but your birthday suit. It’s not illegal to take snaps of your kiddies in the buff, but it could be treated as a crime.In 2008, an Arizona couple took their vacation pictures to a local big box store to be developed. An employee thought their children’s bath time photos were a little too racy, so he reported them to the authorities. A judge later ruled the images were perfectly innocent but the damage was done. The couple was arrested and their three children were held in protective custody for more than a month.Home AloneMost people over 30 wax nostalgic about a childhood spent roaming adult-free through the neighborhood. These days, free-range kids are not only frowned upon, they are often illegal.Several states have laws on the books stating a child cannot be left on their own until the age of 12. In Illinois, a child cannot be legally on his or her own until the age of 14.That’s why you’re seeing stories in the news like the mom who let her 9-year-old daughter play in a park without supervision while she worked her shift at a nearby McDonalds.Earlier this year, a father in Hawaii was arrested for forcing his 8-year-old son to walk the mile home from school all alone.Smoking in the CarPlenty of parents used to puff away on a cigarette while carpooling the kids to soccer.Smoking in the confined space of a car exposes passengers to highly concentrated toxic air even when the windows are rolled down, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Furthermore, smoke seeps into upholstery and other car surfaces, creating long-term health risks.Six states -- Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon and Utah -- take the protection of developing lungs seriously. They’ve got laws on the books making it illegal to smoke in the car with a young child on board. Other states are considering similar legislation.Seat BeltsSome states didn’t have seat belt laws until the early nineties. Until then, plenty of kids slid around in the back seat any time their mom or dad took them out for a drive.One user on Reddit fondly recalled his mom greasing the rear seat with Crisco so he and his sibling would get a thrill every time she hugged a curve in the road.As we now know, seat belts save lives, especially young lives. The U.S. Department of Transportation estimated that seat belts prevent the death of more than 12,000 children every year.Weight GainIf you were a chubby child, you probably endured some teasing. But you probably never worried about being put into foster care for putting on some extra pounds.But that’s exactly what happened to an 8-year-old Cleveland boy in 2011. The 200-pound third grader was removed from his home because health officials reportedly said his mother did not do enough to help him lose weight. 4951
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WskyTngoFxtrt Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 8:28am  
Also add spanking with any kind of object. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 9:49am  
Also add posting photos of your kids with guns at a hunting/gun range.http://mrconservative.com/2013/03/6758-father-has-house-raided-due-to-picture-of-son-with-gun/ 4951
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TexasWonder Active Indicator LED Icon  New Member
~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 10:08am  
Too many nosy people feel empowered to mess with other people's lives. Don't you know everyone is an expert in the age of the internet? It's true! I Googled it. I know what's best for your own children. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 10:14am  
The nanny state/nation at work.... although I agree with the seatbelts 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 10:22am  
The nanny state/nation at work.... although I agree with the seatbelts
 
@Retired_Engineer: ...and the smoking in the car thing.  We simply know more now about the effects of second-hand smoke.  My parents smoked in our car when we were young but they also grew up with the Marlboro Man telling them it was all good.  To ignore the science about the health risks of others today would and should be criminal. 
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Discoshelle Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 3:25pm  
We used to ride EVERYWHERE in the back of our truck sitting on the wheel wells.
I also would go to the public pool and swim everyday while my mom was at work, WITHOUT SUSCREEN.
I'm still here....
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cgm10sne1 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 4:25pm  
I turned out okay being a child born in 65. I stand firmly OKAY on my decision to not have kids. I can't imagine what it would be like to rear a child in this day and age. Kudos to all that do this! Emoticon 4951
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KTownTexican Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 5:08pm  
also...spankingleaving them sitting in the car, while she ran into the store for milkhaving them ride a bike without a helmetbreast feeding in publicgot more,, but have to leave now 4951
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Puzzles Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 5:27pm  
Today everywhere you look online there is a new expert mom with a blog.  These blogs give out advice about everything from what kind of diapers are the best to what you should or should not say to a toddler.Give me a break-----Come back with information after you have had 2 or 3 kids and they are over the age of 6, then maybe someone will consider you an "expert." 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 8, '14 6:38pm  
Taking PhotosYour parents probably have dozens of cute photos of you as a tyke sporting nothing but your birthday suit. It’s not illegal to take snaps of your kiddies in the buff, but it could be treated as a crime.In 2008, an Arizona couple took their vacation pictures to a local big box store to be developed. An employee thought their children’s bath time photos were a little too racy, so he reported them to the authorities. A judge later ruled the images were perfectly innocent but the damage was done. The couple was arrested and their three children were held in protective custody for more than a month.Home AloneMost people over 30 wax nostalgic about a childhood spent roaming adult-free through the neighborhood. These days, free-range kids are not only frowned upon, they are often illegal.Several states have laws on the books stating a child cannot be left on their own until the age of 12. In Illinois, a child cannot be legally on his or her own until the age of 14.That’s why you’re seeing stories in the news like the mom who let her 9-year-old daughter play in a park without supervision while she worked her shift at a nearby McDonalds.Earlier this year, a father in Hawaii was arrested for forcing his 8-year-old son to walk the mile home from school all alone.Smoking in the CarPlenty of parents used to puff away on a cigarette while carpooling the kids to soccer.Smoking in the confined space of a car exposes passengers to highly concentrated toxic air even when the windows are rolled down, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Furthermore, smoke seeps into upholstery and other car surfaces, creating long-term health risks.Six states -- Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon and Utah -- take the protection of developing lungs seriously. They’ve got laws on the books making it illegal to smoke in the car with a young child on board. Other states are considering similar legislation.Seat BeltsSome states didn’t have seat belt laws until the early nineties. Until then, plenty of kids slid around in the back seat any time their mom or dad took them out for a drive.One user on Reddit fondly recalled his mom greasing the rear seat with Crisco so he and his sibling would get a thrill every time she hugged a curve in the road.As we now know, seat belts save lives, especially young lives. The U.S. Department of Transportation estimated that seat belts prevent the death of more than 12,000 children every year.Weight GainIf you were a chubby child, you probably endured some teasing. But you probably never worried about being put into foster care for putting on some extra pounds.But that’s exactly what happened to an 8-year-old Cleveland boy in 2011. The 200-pound third grader was removed from his home because health officials reportedly said his mother did not do enough to help him lose weight.
 
@FoFa: no offense but a lot of this is just a whine...the reasons for some of these complaints is that society has had a growing awareness of
things like pedophilia and child abuse, child predators and abductions,
the hazards of second hand smoke and the medical bills for the resulting
conditions, scraping a kid's brains and face off the windshield after a car accident,and a
200 pound 8 year old? that's not a few extra pounds, that's morbid obesity. no kid suddenly becomes 200 pounds..who gets to
pay the medical bills for this person when they need extensive home
health care  and maybe a heart transplant because of morbid obesity at 21on the plus side, your parents wouldn't be arrested these days for taking polaroids or nekkid pictures of each other or  certain sexual activities since most except missionary between married people were illegal, or illegal possession of a vibrating device (yep, all of these were illegal in a LOT of places in the good old days, still feeling nostalgic?)
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 9, '14 7:50am  
no offense but a lot of this is just a whine...the reasons for some of these complaints is that society has had a growing awareness of things like pedophilia and child abuse, child predators and abductions, the hazards of second hand smoke and the medical bills for the resulting conditions, scraping a kid's brains and face off the windshield after a car accident,and a 200 pound 8 year old? that's not a few extra pounds, that's morbid obesity
 
@ProblemAgain: Wow, it was just humor. 
I agree, and it was not designed as a complaint. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 9, '14 8:20am  
abcnews.go.com/US/mo m-jailed-breastfeedi ng-drinking-waitress -fired/story?id
 
This story is scary to me. A mom arrested for breastfeeding after drinking 2 beers with dinner, over a period of an hour and a half.
 
One, I have read that brewers yeast helps milk production. Because of this, nursing moms are often encouraged to have one beer a day. Having two on a rare occasion doesn't seem like a big deal. Granted, in restaurants, I always feed formula, and I supplement with formula daily anyway.
 
But there was one instance that I recall, this could have happened to me. About a month ago, we spent several hours in Kemah. I had a soda with dinner, baby had formula. Then we were walking around the boardwalk and she got fussy and I decided to discreetly nurse sitting in a chair behind the stroller. @MTechnique said he was going to get a souvenir slushy drink he saw other people carrying around. I asked for one too. He brought it back to me and said he realized after he ordered it that it was a Margarita. I took a few sips while breastfeeding, where people could see. The thing that some people might not realize, the milk that I was feeding her at that moment was produced much earlier. And since I alternate between breast milk and formula, by the time I would breastfeed again, those few sips of alcohol (or even the whole drink) would be out of my system. But I can see now, that a busy-body could have taken offense at what I was doing, and I could have found myself in a difficult situation.
 
I agree with the woman in the article about one thing. They should have given her a breathalyzer if her sobriety was truly their concern. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 9, '14 2:33pm  
Removed By Request 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 9, '14 3:19pm  
I can't tell you how many times I was left in the car.
  
@Stealth83: Well, that explains some things!  Emoticon   Actually, so was I.  But the windows were all down and we weren't afraid of kidnappers.Most of the things listed in the OP,  and the others mentioned, are a sign of changing times AND the use of common sense.  If more parents had common sense, we wouldn't need those laws.
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 9, '14 4:33pm  
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