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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