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Originally Posted by MarkAF
Well dont think times have changed too much. just 'some' parents seem to think thier children are grown up way before thier time. (nothing intended to anyone's post here but...) i dont know how many times i've seen kids on busy streets unsupervised
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I agree, SORT OF-I've seen three or four year old children playing outside with no adult to be seen and that's BS. But when I was a child, I lived on a dead end road, and I could have breakfast, and be gone until dinner and no one ever bothered me and my mom had no reason to worry. Today, my son is older then I was at that time and we live a yard away from where the roads dead end together and I still wouldn't feel comfortable giving him the same freedoms I had.
Things have changed, and if you don't see that, you're in denial. This is an uncaring society today. Even if you are blessed enough to have no predators in your neighborhood, it's unlikely you escape those people who won't slow down when children are playing outside, the people who won't restrain their aggressive animals, the other children who bully younger kids because they have been taught that by others who bullied them.....
Children do need more protection then they often receive. But the reason for that is the fact that this world today is so self-centered and uncaring, and it is worse then it was 50, 40, even 20 years ago.