# This ain't no Brady Bunch

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-aint-no-brady-bunch/600429>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 22, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-aint-no-brady-bunch/600429 "2011-10-22T06:20:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-aint-no-brady-bunch/600429/1 "2011-10-22T06:20:58Z")

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Now I don’t know anything about this story other than I’ve looked at the mugshots of the “mom and dad”. Umm yeeeaah, I’m gonna go out on a limb here…

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-aint-no-brady-bunch/600429/2 "2011-10-22T06:58:13Z")

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Hey, I accurately predicted which news story the thread was about. Eerie.

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**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-aint-no-brady-bunch/600429/3 "2011-10-22T08:47:58Z")

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"The boy told police that his father and sister decided to move out of the trailer Sept. 27 but told him he would have to wait another day to leave.  
“The boy said they gave him $5 to find a place to stay and he crawled underneath a neighbor’s porch to sleep, too afraid to ask for help.”

So uh, were they just going to leave him outside overnight?

What I don’t understand in cases like this is how a kid can just disappear from the school system without lots of questions/followup, and a case worker being assigned to him if the parents were uncooperative. Hell, even a home-schooled kid has to take tests occasionally.