DNA kits for Texas kids: Plan evokes strong reaction from parents, grandparents nationwide
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As Texas prepares to hand out DNA kits to schoolchildren to bring home to parents, other concerned caregivers are weighing in on the issue of DNA kits for kids — and what it says about society.
While the kits are a "voluntary identification card" to be kept by a child’s guardian in order to help law enforcement potentially find missing children, parents are tense — especially in the wake of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May of this year. "Prayer and more prayer – may God help us when we get to this point, feeling we need to send kids home with DNA kits." "Because this stuff has been slow-rolled, society and parents are becoming almost numb to this insanity and actually tolerating it." Deirdre Reilly is a senior editor in lifestyle with Fox News Digital.
"While this is helpful in the event of a child going missing, at the same time, my heart sinks," a Massachusetts public school administrator told Fox News Digital this week about the DNA program.
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