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A mother of three in Virginia is no longer able to let her children play outside for fear Child Protective Services will take them away.
Emily Fields claims she's being accused of neglecting her children after her four-year-old son kicked a soccer ball towards a neighbor's cat.
Fields, who lives in Pearisburg, Virginia, says she became a target of social workers who urged her to sign a form disallowing her kids - a boy now 6 and two daughters aged 8 and 9 - from playing outside without constant supervision.
According to Fields one of the workers lives in her neighborhood and harbors animosity towards her family.
An article for Reason Magazine by Lenore Skenazy, founder of non-profit Let Grow that advocates childhood independence, chronicles Fields's struggle with social services.
Fields, who lives in Pearisburg, Virginia, says she became the target of social workers who urged her to sign a form disallowing her kids - a boy now 6 and two daughters aged 8 and 9 - from playing outside without constant supervision. She is pictured with her children
In May 2021 her son, four at the time, kicked a football across the road in the direction of a neighbor's cat, but did not hit it, she says.
When Fields took the boy across the road to apologize, the
