Little libertarians.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Lenore Skenazy on parenting - Brief article

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A year ago, Lenore Skenazy let her 9-year-old son ride the subway home alone in New York City, then wrote about it in the New York Sun. Hysteria ensued, as did a book contract for Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry (Jossey-Bass), a manifesto for a fledgling movement of parents struggling against both laws and social censure to give their children at least as much freedom as the chickens they buy at Whole Foods.

Your child is statistically no more likely to be abducted than you were, Skenazy...