Sounds good in theory, but irresponsible in practice as this incident shows, not to mention the baseline risk of child molestation inherent in leaving your children in the woods with strangers that would be significantly mitigated by access to call police, home or emergency services, even if it were simply the threat of such.
If you don't want them to use a smart phone they still sell dumb phones at any Walmart for under 20 bucks as of a few months ago, with 20 dollar burner service, or you could simply remove the sim card from their phone so they can't use the internet and can still call emergency services.
Sounds good in theory, but irresponsible in practice as this incident shows, not to mention the baseline risk of child molestation inherent in leaving your children in the woods with strangers that would be significantly mitigated by access to call police, home or emergency services, even if it were simply the threat of such.
If you don't want them to use a smart phone they still sell dumb phones at any Walmart for under 20 bucks as of a few months ago, with 20 dollar burner service, or you could simply remove the sim card from their phone so they can't use the internet and can still call emergency services.