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[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These stories make the news because they're so outlandish. This is far from common behavior.

[โ€“] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

The fact that it happens at all is far too much. The US has become a country of essentially helicopter parents. I blame this largely on suburbs. They are built for cars and there's not really a good way for children to travel alone. This has caused a situation where parents are involved in whatever the child is doing anytime they aren't at school. This leads to ethe expectation that a parent will always be a with their child, so this not being the case becomes suspicious.