17th June 2010, 5:45 PM
There's a difference between "I'm afraid of letting my 9 year old out of the house" and "I'm afraid of leaving my 9 year old alone in NYC to ride the subway home". There's "over-protective" and then there's "protective", they aren't the same. Again, she knows her son and apparently this is what he wanted to do, so I don't think this woman should be dragged out into the street and shot, but it's not something that I'd feel comfortable with doing.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.