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COMMENTS:
Voted : 6
I lived most of my childhood in a very quiet place. People didnt lock they houses or cars and there were no criminals. The only time the community had a bit of fuss was when me and my mates broke my neighbour's windows playing footie.
Voted : 9
I grew up in Brooklyn N.Y and both of my parents worked so I had to walk to public school without my parents at age 9.I was never alone though since I walked to and from school with my friends.
Voted : 5
I walked ½ mile to school without adult supervision.
My kids have the bus stop in front of our house. Other than that, I won't let them leave the yard without supervision.
Voted : 5
WOW this is an awesome ballot, it really made me realize how much the world has changed!! DANG i remember at 5 years old i was doing stuff my 11 year old would NEVER do! Like walking with my cousins to the store, walking in on my mom and dad *vile* and finding my cousins pornos in bushes outside! lol
There WERE criminals though, but not half as many that i knew of, besides Richard Ramirez and Kevin Cooper stalking our area *ahahahaa* (Gotta love Cali) and my mom pretty much let us do whatever we wanted...but anyway's now you really have to watch your kids, ALL the time, or some freaky guy is gonna snatch them up! Really sad. What happened to the world? I used to walk pretty far to school, the store and everywhere also by myself when i was around 5 or 6...crazy times
Voted : 7
I used to walk all over town when I was 7 or 8. School, stores, the park, the library, and I even walked to the movie theater and back home at night fairly often. The world is a lot more dangerous now than it was 35 or 40 years ago.
Voted : 5
I feel for kids today, how can they grow into personable adults when they are raised in a bubble??? Statistics show they are no more at risk today then they were when we were children, are we breading a bunch of kids who will be socially incapable of forming relationships in the future, play is an important part of any childs development.
Voted : 6
I walked half a mile home from my school. I was on the loose almost all day on the weekends too.
It's not safe to now though, if I lived in that neighborhood and had a daughter I wouldn't let her go far alone.
Where I grew up is plain scary now, like town-from-hell.
by Jyl on Tue Jun 05, 07 2:27pm
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Voted : 2
And I lived in Noo Yawk City, believe it or not. This is *not* the world I grew up in...
It's because sex offenders don't get enough time! If they CASTRATED them they might not be so anxious to go out and grab a kid off the streets again...THUS a safer world!
Voted : 5
I walked about a quarter mile to the bus stop.
I was late for school this morning and didn't have time to write more, but that's what the report is saying, that parents aren't giving children the independence they need as adults, like you said Minni, children today are living in bubbles, parents feel it's a more dangerous world out there.
I was almost 15 before my dad even took parental controls off of my computer, and almost same age before he stopped taking me to and from school.
I think he was over protective with me, but I understand his reasons.
Its not a more dangerous world, its just more widely reported today. Parental paranoia has reached an all time high fueled by the press and ironic twist is, its the kids are going to suffer more for it.
Voted : 6
It's a sad state of affairs. It seems the criminals and sickos have won - or at least made us alter our behavior. Sort of what terrorism sets out to do. My brothers and sisters and friends and I could go almost anywhere we wanted as long as we went home when the street lights went on. We never worried about child molesters or kidnappers, just the older kids who we feared would bully us but never did. I feel sorry for today's kids.
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