Mere Fidelity: Free Range Parenting

April 28th, 2015 | 2 min read

A national debate on the nature and limits of childhood is currently underfoot, and as only one of us has children we decided to weigh in. We mentioned a number of articles on the show. For an overview of the Maryland case, read this. Megan McArdle provides a handy list of seven reasons we hate free range parenting, and Michael Lewis takes on what happens to children when they don't play. Finally, Michael Brendan Dougherty examines why we can't be free range kids anymore.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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