@thetimes: Would you let your five-year-old child go on a half-mile walk alone? That was the question Karyann Parkinson, a trainee lawyer, faced one morning in June when her son Sam asked to go out collecting goose feathers. The decision she made; to allow him to go out alone, has triggered a Kafkaesque nightmare which ended in a criminal conviction and seven years on the child abuse register for Parkinson, who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with her husband and five children. Last week the family’s story made headlines across the US and rekindled a debate about how much freedom to give children in an increasingly anxious age 📸 Coy Ferrell for The Sunday Times 📸 Karyann Parkinson 📸 Ford's Colony Williamsburg #news #parenthood #momtok #motherhood #virginia

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