Helicopter Parenting Gets Grounded in Georgia Following a Mom’s Arrest When Her 10-Year-Old Walked Alone to the Store
Georgia is the ninth state to adopt what’s known as the Reasonable Childhood Independence Law.

Just a few months after Georgia mom Brittany Patterson was arrested for the crime of not knowing that her then-10-year-old son had walked to the store on his own, her state has passed a Reasonable Childhood Independence law, making it the ninth state to do so. It now goes to the governor for signing.
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