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# Texas schools send parents DNA kits to identify their kids’ bodies in emergencies
- URL: https://werd.io/texas-schools-send-parents-dna-kits-to-identify-their-kids/
- Published: 2022-10-19T13:57:32.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-19T13:57:32.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

““You have to understand, I’m a former law enforcement officer,” Walder, who has lived in Texas for 14 years, said. "I worry every single day when I send my kid to school. Now we’re giving parents DNA kits so that when their child is killed with the same weapon of war I had when I was in Afghanistan, parents can use them to identify them?”” [#Society](https://werd.io/tag/Society)

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