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Gen X, of which this editor is a proud member, saved the country by voting for Donald Trump by a 53-point margin. Gen X is the generation of latchkey kids who would ride their bikes around the neighborhood until it got dark.

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Attitudes toward children have certainly changed, at least in Georgia, where ABC News reports that a mother was arrested on charges of reckless conduct for letting her 10-year-old walk less than a mile from their home to the store. No, really.

… after her son walked into town on his own.

Brittany Patterson was charged with reckless conduct after deputies said her 10-year-old son walked less than a mile to a store from their north Georgia home.”

No, really. 

And there’s some nonsense about dropping the charge if she signs a safety plan that puts a GPS tracker on her son’s phone.

This editor remembers walking to elementary school alone every day, and that was about a mile away.

We wouldn’t have believed it had ABC News not reported on it and shown the bodycam video.

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That’s what we were thinking. Local law enforcement thinks their beat is too dangerous for a 10-year-old to walk alone? What kind of crimes have been going on there?

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Same.

It’s fine to let a 10-year-old change their gender and take puberty blockers and hormones, but don’t let a boy walk into town in rural Georgia. What’s going on over there?

It’s crazy. As someone said above, all of our parents would be in jail.

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