Did this mom do the right thing or the wrong thing? 10 and 12 years old? I'm maybe thinking, no harm, no foul ...
One way or the other, you have to sympathize.
HT Ann Althouse
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1 comment:
I agree with you. I'd think it more traumatic that there is a temporary restraining order against the mother's seeing her kids. To "abandon" 10- and 12-year old kids three miles from home in an area with which they must have been familiar is hardly traumatic, and they both probably realized they deserved it. A three mile walk home should have been just the thing to calm them down.
On the other hand, did they deserve to see their mother arrested? I don't think so.
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