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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026

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This article has been falsified. The child fell and from what I can tell legitimately needed to go to the hospital. The police called the mother with the children present. The mother yelled at the children for calling 911.

This is 100% child abuse. Yes if your 14 should call 911 if while babysitting one of the kids get a serious head injury.

I haven’t looked into it enough to verify that the head injury was this serious but I’m also fine with a 14 year old immediately calling 911 in that situation because it could be serious. I think there were head lacerations so serious enough for a 14 year old to immediately seek medical attention.

This article is bait like all the “murdered for walking as black”. There was in fact abuse in this case.

The mom was not right to yell at her daughter for calling 911, but is the father better? Are foster parents better? It’s possible and cheaper to reprimand the mom and even monitor her parenting without taking her kids away.

Sure I don’t necessary agree with the solution but this also isn’t a nothing happened situation. The cops had a legitimate reason to investigate. I will pass on making a decision on whether their judgement on a solution was correct.

I just know from reports “teen babysitting is now illegal in Florida” is false.

The mother yelling at the child for calling 911 does not constitute "abuse" under the statute given.

I think there's a good chance that the mom had a fear that the system could punish her for leaving a 14 year old as caregiver and so had instructed her kid to escalate to some trusted adult first unless absolutely necessary.

I would probably yell in this situation as well.

You are making a self-defense style claim, but the other guy needs to be pointing the gun at you for it to work. In this case the state perhaps has a gun but it’s still holstered and you pre-emptively shot which is murder.

I can’t predict if the state would have brought charges if she didn’t yell at the kid and tell them not to call 911, but I do think once she did that it is child endangerment etc. and interfering with your child getting necessary medical care is bad.

For this case it looks like she did the bad thing.

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