Posted Mar 28, 2018
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Utah passes first-of-its-kind “free range parenting” law, which “exempts from the definition of child neglect various activities children can do without supervision, permitting ‘a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities …,'” such as walking, running, or biking to school, traveling to commercial or recreational facilities, playing outside, and remaining at home unattended.
