Forgetting the Lesson of the UVA/Rolling Stone Hoax

On Thursday, reason.com published a genuinely outrageous report about two parents who had been arrested, strip-searched, jailed overnight, and charged with felony child neglect simply because their 11-year-old son had been left alone to play basketball for 90 minutes in his own backyard.

The author of the piece, Lenore Skenazy, writes the blog Free-Range Kids, where she has drawn attention to other outrageous cases in which parents have been charged with child neglect for letting their children walk home unsupervised from a park or school.