youngNed parent
These are very very isolated outliers amplified by a media hellbent on ragebait.
You've never tried to free-range raise your kids then. Some friends in our neighborhood had the police called on them for riding their bikes around the block, and the cops followed the kids back to their front door and then talked with the parents.
I have. I also, crucially, don't live in America.
This article, also crucially, does not relate to America