"dsi1" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 5:57:38 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> If younger kids stray from the front of the house parents are charged
> with neglect. In MD, police investigated because kids walk home from
> school
> http://wjla.com/news/local/silver-sp...e-alone-112094
>
> When I was 8, I could go to my grandparents house by taking a bus,
> train, then trolley. Today my parents would be arrested for letting me
> go. At 10 we rode our bikes across a mile long bridge to another state
> to visit a former class mate.

Things have certainly changed in a few decades. What's common in Japan would
terrify most Westerners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkVvXVDs5aI

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My life was pretty much the same as Ed describes when I was young. My boys
were allowed much more freedom in that way then my daughter was.

I doubt I would see that now.