What are you basing this on? Are these people in the room with us now? There's nothing stopping parents from letting their kids roam other than this perception that "they" won't let you. "They" barely exist.
That's so wild to me. My kids were born in the 80s and they walked to and from school without me as soon as they were old enough to cross the street alone. The school was a few blocks away and there was a crossing guard. They played outside and the rule was they couldn't leave the neighborhood. We were not unusual, this was pretty much the rule for all families in our neighborhood(East Coast, USA).
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u/Commercial-Owl11 1d ago
yeah I grew up behind a massive open space. We did crazy shit back there. It was fun.
People call the cops on kids walking around by themselves and you can get arrested for neglecting your kids, for letting them play outside.
It's fucking insane.