© Sammy DallalSILVER SPRING, MD - JANUARY 16: Danielle Meitiv waits with her son Rafi, Meitiv, 10, for Danielle's daughter Dvora Meitiv, 6, to be dropped off at the neighborhood school bus stop in Silver Spring MD, Friday January 16, 2015.
One recent Saturday afternoon, six police officers and five patrol cars came to my home in Silver Spring. They demanded identification from my husband and entered our home despite not having a warrant to do so. The reason for this show of force? We had allowed our children to walk home from a neighborhood park by themselves.
A few hours later, a Montgomery County Child Protective Services (CPS) social worker coerced my husband into signing a "temporary safety plan" for our children by threatening to take the children "right now" — a threat she backed up with a call to the police. In the weeks that followed, another worker from the agency appeared at our door with the police and insisted that he did not need a warrant to enter our home. He also interviewed our children at school without our knowledge or permission.
When did Americans decide that allowing our kids to be out of sight was a crime?
Comment: It is interesting that while pedophiles in high places receive royal treatment from police and investigative authorities, Child Protective Services increasingly characterize anything less than "helicopter parenting" (which takes an emotional toll on children) as "child neglect and endangerment"— as if trolls hide behind every bush, waiting for parents to turn their backs. It almost seems like transference and attribution error in the collective unconscious; people can sense children are being destroyed emotionally, but it is more acceptable to blame boogeymen rather than the psychopathic and closet-pedophile elites in government, business and religion we are taught to respect and look up to.
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