10 is really old to be calling the cops on. My kids is 8 and we expecting her to walk to school alone this year like many kids.

But the lack of sidewalk and the description as a place “no on walks” is a bit more problematic.

We definitely have roads like that and would be horrified if my kid was walking along it — and the cops picking them up would be probably appropriate

But arresting the parents is over reaction; kids do stupid things, even when taught well. And there was a guardrail.

Today I learned that if I raised my kids today like I did in the early ‘90s, I’d probably be on death row.

In the summer my son same age as the kid in the news story would leave the house after breakfast and some days we wouldn’t see him but for occasional run in the house to grab a snack. I had no idea where he was half the time and we literally lived around a gator and snake infested woods and swamp areas.

It's very location dependent regardless of the laws, I spent the holidays in eastern europe (large cities) and saw hordes of kids playing around in the snow, even kids under 10 playing without supervision, I'm back in the west and I only see groups of fat kids smoking vapes, eating junk and doomscrolling on public benches, I wish I was exaggerating... it's so depressing. idk what kind of future we're training them for but I think they'll struggle hard in life