Free-Range Kids

By The Daily Dish

Lenore Skenazy wants to let kids be kids:

There is a 1 in 1.5 million chance that your kid would be abducted and killed by a stranger. It is hard to wrap your mind around those numbers, and everybody always assumes: What if it's my 1 in 1.5 million? If you don't want to have your child in any kind of danger, you really can't do anything. You certainly couldn't drive them in a car, because that's the No. 1 way kids die, as passengers in car accidents.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/05/free-range-kids/202107/