Abandonment ?
This guy has been arrested for telling his kid ( his eleven year old kid, the same age as the DQ ) to walk home and leaving him at the neighborhood McDonalds (the distance was “a few blocks” ).
Apparently they argued about something, he told his son to walk home, and drove home. Then he cooled off and went back and got him. They apologized to each other and he was “spoken sternly to” by a police officer. Now he’s arrested for child abandonment with intent to return and endangerment !
You can read that article for more details.
I’m pretty sure my dad had me walk home at least once, from a family friend’s house. It wasn’t far, and I’d walked it before, but he circled around and picked me up later. Probably the same situation; frustrated, he did what we-as-parents try to do these days and removed himself from the situation, didn’t beat the kid, tried to “make the punishment fit the crime.” I didn’t take it personally, as I recall, I just took my lumps, as it were, and walked home. He caught up to me a few blocks later.
I don’t know what this guy should have done, other than not leaving the kid at the McDonalds. What do you think?
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