Child protective services overreach, UK
*Kirstie Allsopp let her
15-year-old
son go on a 3-week train trip around Europe with his 16-year-old buddy — and found herself
under investigation by child protective services.* Here is Lenore Skenazy's response.
When I was 15, I was not ready for an adventure like that, and I would have been too terrified to
try it. Even at 25 I would have found it too daunting — sharing a ride to a science fiction
convention was as much as I could handle then.
However, most people learn to deal with the non-academic and non-computing aspects of life much
younger than I did.