[coned88]

not in America anymore.

[terda12]

There's a local elementary school nearby, I see kids walk home from school everyday. I'm not sure where you are pulling that data from. A young teenager can walk/bike home by him/herself relatively safely in most of America. Or are we just living in a world where a bit of hardship on a kid is "child abuse" now?

[crimsonalucard]

8 year olds and ten year olds use to walk all over the city in the 1970s and 80s