How’s a parent to know when a child is old enough to cross the street — or, in Laura Dekker’s case, the ocean — alone?
Free-Range Kids
A Young Boy’s Murder Has Parents Second-Guessing Their Decisions
Kids can be very persuasive. That must have been the case with 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, who talked his parents into letting him walk home alone on July 11 from his day camp in Brooklyn. His parents made a deal with him. After …