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Backlash against oversheltering kids gains some traction

By Neil Turitz,  Newser User

Posted May 16, 2008 5:48 PM CDT

(Newser) – Using the flap over a New York 9-year-old allowed to find his own way home from Bloomingdale's as an example of a sea change, Rosa Brooks, writing in the Los Angeles Times, reminds us that allowing children to be outside on their own used to...   Read full story »

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