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Originally Posted by Milo Dijete
When I was a 7-year-old, I walked on the streets alone, on my way to and from school, as did the entire student population of the country. Thirty years on, today's kids are still doing it and I see no reason why they shouldn't. Perhaps we're all out of our minds and the entire country should be reported to some global Child Protection Services organization. But I doubt it.
I'm sure there are cities and countries where it is unsafe for a person with no obvious means of defending themselves, regardless of their age, to be out in the street alone in broad daylight, but where that is not the case, I don't see that this collective and even state-mandated overprotectiveness makes any sense.
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First of all, of course, any govermental mandates can be over reactive. I speak not to the obvious, but to the following.
Perhaps where you live, you do not have pedophiles, or those who love to hurt children.
Here, just a month ago, a 7 year old and his 9 year old brother went to a neighborhood park by themselves. less than a block from their home. And bear in mind, this is one of the safer areas of the county.
They were found less than an hour later, bludgeoned to death with an aluminum baseball bat, and the perp lived in the neighborhood and didnt' even know them. He just felt like doing that. He is 'under observation', and will most likely spend some time in a mental hospital instead of being shot like the animal he is. Wait. Thats an insult to animals. There is no word for this monster.
I quote this obscenity, because no matter where you live, it is not safe to let your children run free. Crap like this, It happens EVERY DAY.
This isn't the world of 'yesterday' I ran the streets 50 years ago also. Look around, read the papers.
Why they shouldn't, indeed.