Nanny Staters arrest Georgia mom for unleashing her kid: It's a sad sign of the times that so many of us now live in fear of letting our children do what children have always done: explore, venture out, and grow. Some of these parents are afraid of harm coming to their kids, while others, more rightly, are fearful of what might happen to them as parents. Here's a case in point, from NBC News: "A Georgia woman was arrested and accused of allegedly endangering her son — all because the unsupervised 10-year-old walked less than a mile away from home, officials said. ... The Fannin County Sheriff's Department called to say her son Soren had wandered from their rural home in Mineral Bluff and into town." Anyone else out there remember having "wandered" when you were a kid? "It's not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road," said Brittany Patterson, 41, last week in an interview. "I wasn't terrified for him or scared for his safety." Apparently, though, that's not good enough for our statist usurpers of parental rights, the Nanny State Police.
North Carolina House overrides veto of $463.5M increase for private-school vouchers (WRAL)
