It may not yet have congressional recognition, but May 9 is the red-letter day on the calendar for a growing national observance: “National Take Your Kids to the Park . . . and Leave Them There Day.” Owing to recent very stupid events in a tony Maryland community, this year the theme has been slightly revised: “National Take Your Kids to the Park . . . and Let Them Walk Home by Themselves Day.”
The Meitiv family resides in Silver Spring, Md., a comfortable suburb directly adjacent to the District of Columbia with a median family income pushing $90,000 and a crime rate well under the national average. The Meitivs, Alexander and Danielle, had their children, Rafi and Dvora, taken into police custody and now find themselves on the wrong side of Child Protective Services as offenders — repeat offenders — whose crime is letting their children play in the park and walk home by themselves.
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