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I'm 42. I fucking walked for miles all over the place when I was a kid. This being a "problem" is straight up retarded. Shit was actually a lot more dangerous back in the 80s and 90s than it is now. Kids are safer today than 30 years ago.
It's the criminalization of any sort of poverty.
The problem is that we'll spend an extra billion on police to save a grand on social services.
No it's a nanny state overreacting to a non issue, parents were convinced there is a rapist/pedophile on every corner so they shouldn't let their kids be kids
My mother in law was upset we put our sons crib by the window, you know, because people just walk by windows looking for newborns to snatch.
My wife has had about a dozen stranger danger talks with our oldest so now hes trying to figure out what anyone would want to abduct him for.
Its hard to counter that stuff sometimes for sure.
We literally roamed the neighborhoods in feral packs on bikes
Granted I was 100% almost kidnapped once but still
We raised our kids feral in the late 90s/early 2000s. They're all resilient, self-supporting adults now. We had neighbors who bitched at us, and were overprotective of their little darlings. Both of their kids are now dealing with opiod addictions.
I was walking to school since grade 1, I was 6. We checked it out with my parents beforehand, did some test walks iirc, and none of it was along American style stroads. But it was more than a mile. Twice every day.
Many years ago (I'm old), a friend and I biked 20 miles from Orange County into Los Angeles, to East L.A. Had a hell of a time, visited my friend's cousins, got tacos de lengua, got a guy to buy a 6-pack for us, chugged down the Modelo then rode back home.
We were 12.
Independence is good but idk if Id want my kids chugging booze
By the time I was 13 or so my mom didn't know where I was more than 50% of the time. And I think at 13 my hormones probably made me do dumber shit than when I was 10.
I should definitely have not been left unsupervised as a teenager either lol. And yet, my mom wasn't even in the same state some of the time lmao