# Down with "free range parenting"! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2014, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-with-free-range-parenting/695225 "2014-08-10T10:36:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-with-free-range-parenting/695225/141 "2014-08-15T14:24:46Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > For you to claim that my honest advocacy of a policy–which is pretty close to the status quo norm in today’s society–to protect children from harm It isn’t status quo, and you have yet to make a good case that children are actually being protected. Honestly, you and furt sound equally nuts. The only difference is you’re being proactively nuts, he is reactively nuts. Between this thread and your other recent posts, you might want to take a break. Go outside, play with your kids. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-with-free-range-parenting/695225/142 "2014-08-15T19:48:37Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > It isn’t status quo, and you have yet to make a good case that children are actually being protected. > > Honestly, you and furt sound equally nuts. The only difference is you’re being proactively nuts, he is reactively nuts. > > Between this thread and your other recent posts, you might want to take a break. Go outside, play with your kids. How do you actually report a post around here? I have never done it before, but I’m ready. Any moderated board worth its salt rightly prohibits these kinds of posts (not just the “nuts” accusation, but the “you’re spending too much time on the boards” couched as a “friendly suggestion”). I don’t see a “report” button… ETA: Ah, wait: it’s the little exclamation point in the triangle. Never really noticed that before. Got it. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-with-free-range-parenting/695225/143 "2014-08-15T20:42:23Z")
**SlackerInc**., **Marley** is participating here as a poster, not a moderator, and his opinions on the subject at hand don’t constitute moderator action. Cool it. Also, I assure you we are worth our salt around here and **fisha’s** ‘advice’ is fairly mild. But, **fisha** , calling people nuts is escalating things, so keep your comments directed toward a person’s arguments rather than them personally. **furt** , do not threaten violence on specific posters. That is out of line so cool it. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-with-free-range-parenting/695225/144 "2014-08-15T20:49:52Z")
**I** should cool it? Okay, WTF…that is seriously pathetic moderator fail. Where is the “delete account” button? Sad, after being here since the AOL days…but that just does not fly. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-with-free-range-parenting/695225/145 "2014-08-23T02:11:21Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Let me ask you something else too, since so many people try to pawn it off on safer cars: if that category that you described as “motorvehicle deaths of children” only includes children as vehicle passengers and not as pedestrians hit by cars, why is there no listing for the latter category? That makes me think the stat combines both, which means more supervision should absolutely reduce those deaths. It’s very basic common sense that supervised kids are less likely to be hit by cars when they are pedestrians. If you are going to dispute that, you may as well tilt at windmills. [It does not include only children who are passengers in cars.](http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/809762.pdf) However, children under the age of 14 only account for 8% of pedestrian deaths, and 21% of bicycling deaths. In total, just over 500 fewer children were killed either of these ways in 2003 than in 1993. Both types of deaths, though decreasing, still account for a higher percentage of deaths than vehicular crashes in which they are the victim 5% of the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-with-free-range-parenting/695225.md?page=7)