We must ask ourselves how we reached the point where a parent’s biggest fear is that government officials will literally seize our children off the streets.

Matthew Dowd, a lawyer representing a Maryland couple who plans to sue Montgomery County after their children were seized from a park by police and taken into Child Protective Services for six hours. The couple practices "free-range parenting" and allows their children, ages 10 and 6, to walk around and play outside by themselves.