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The Shortening Leash
Six thousand respondents to the Slate survey and the trend is clear: Kids today have a lot less freedom than their parents did.
What were you allowed to do when you were a kid? In July, South Carolina mother Debra Harrell was arrested for allowing her 9-year-old daughter to play in the park unattended while she was at work. Harrell’s arrest prompted outrage, but also an outpouring of nostalgia, as indignant readers remembered activities they routinely did as children that are considered near criminal today. So we asked Slate readers to answer a survey about what they were allowed to do as kids, and also what they let their own children do today. About 6,000 of you answered, and the results give a fairly clear picture, over several decades, of a shortening leash for American children.

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Nowadays, most of the schoolteachers are of the ultra-left or radical feminist types. They always thrust their views upon small children. I remember an incident, when a 3-year old kid was termed as racist, because he liked a white doll more than a black one.

Of course that is not racist:
Sadly, there was a famous study/test and even the black kids preferred white dolls (since they had self-esteem issues with being black)

Thank you for the commentary from the both of you but now we're going into the shitzone. If race doesn't make a joke for the dominatrix's then we all lose. The liberals have this position on their side as they run this line of thought.

I am scared for those kids, hopefully they turn out to rebel against the ultra facist parental generation, and we get a weird mix of hippies like the 1970s well in a digital age ha-ha.

The opposite response reaction mainly aka another counterculture is born.

Not surprising given the pressure of the whole of society.  Anyone with half a brain isnt "racist" the rest are sheeple being played by the media, angry and against eachother.

We pretty much are hippies in the digital age, nearly all activism and the like is happening on the internet with lots of people speaking out, the established media and political groups can't stand it which is pretty funny, especially when people actively pick a fight with them for blatantly lying the way they do.

Also, I don't consider Left or Right any better than each other, both are equally opressive just to different groups.

They have less freedom because of the dumb shit they do and the environment they live in. Nowadays, maybe you don't have freedom to go where you want, but you could easily be a stripper at 12.

I love it when people like you say stupid stuff like that, it's like claiming that you can't pay taxes, have you ever actually tried letting people you know do that? Of course not, you're just full of shit and think you know everything.

If you're talking about what I'm saying, then of course! It's happened within my community, within other communities, and within the world! Kids do in fact have more freedom! Nowadays, you can't physically discipline your children! Hell, if you take their smart phones away, they might Poison you with bleach (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/23/12-year-old-tries-to-kill-mom-bleach-iphone_n_6923570.html).

I'm not saying this as to say that everyone does this, but what I'm saying is that children have more freedom than we once had 100 years ago. We have emotionally unstable kids nowadays.

Not only have they lost freedom..
There is also expected a lot more from them now instead of for 10 - 20 years ago.
There is a lot of pressure and not all can keep the insane standard that some set.

Yes and it can't possibly be because of people like you trying to enforce their will on children any second they get right? Of course not :D

I'll enforce my will on my children so they don't grow up being an asshole to others or walking into a theater to kill people.

Doesn't cross your mind for a minute that people like you are the reason children are growing up and shooting up these places does it? That's pure arrogance for you.

Meh. Whatever you say. You probably don't have kids to take care of.

That's because when I have sex I'm going to have the sense to wear a condom which I assume you must be against considering you're clearly so obsessed over the rearing of children.

Clearly you're still a teenager.


I'm done complaining with someone so young as to not understand life yet.

One day you will know, and one day you will know why my words meant so much. You probably won't remember it, but you will have that subtle thought in your mind that you've seen it before.

LOL! Clearly you're a Christian ;)

Btw, i'm an atheist.

Adding to my ignore list now.

Some Athiest you are, wow.

it is completely normal for kids to be out alone, this is just the usual neo-fascism to keep useless public officials busy and ... most importantly ...

TRAIN PEOPLE EARLY ON THAT SHORT LEASHES ARE NORMAL  >:(

And the sad thing is, most college age "kids" are completely oblivious to this fact.  This is very scary that people are too obsessed with themselves, selfies, snapchats, etc to take 10 minutes to read up on what the govnt is doing these days.  Personal privacy will be all but wiped out very soon, personal freedoms are being attacked viciously (gun rights, personal health decisions, etc) and most people dont even care.  Very sad but most people are too dumb/brain dead to even know whats happening.

We've lost freedom, that's a fact, but we've also lost homogeneity. When I grow up, in a small town, every kid in my school was white and catholic. That was in a public school, in an average neighborhood. 100% of the children were white and catholic. That means we all had the same values, and we were all trusting each other. So did our parents, who gave me a lot of freedom because nothing could happen. And that was true, nothing happened.

and now values/morals are decided by the govt.  They want to make all decisions for you, turning you into a brain dead mind slave.  And they are succeeding! Especially with the younger college age crowd, who may be the most clueless generation ever.

While I realize that kids have less freedom I am not so convinced this is such a horrible thing – we can still provide our children with the freedom they need while watching them from a distance or when they are in a safe environment and guiding them to be independent.

I think of it as " Kids have as much or as littte freedom as they are allowed". It's parenting that has changed, and their influence on institutions that serve kids. For example, I added a hermit crab to my classroom as a class pet. Such a move now requires the signatures of all parents at the school and a search of all school medical records. All this to look at a crab in a glass tank.

Here is something you might like that challenges our assumptions about safety.
"The Land" an awesome and dangerous place for kids.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/

Well the hippies were an answer to world wide escalating wars, inequality, political oppression and crimes against humanity Etc

That could never happen today in our civilized society... ups ::)

tell that the pedophile white catholic priests they must missed something (forgot that it is all just gods will)
ok thanks bye

The Catholic church never actively prosecuted its pedo priests for molesting children. This in turn encouraged more and more of them to continue their activity with 100% immunity. And this is a problem for the Catholic church all around the world, not just in white nations.

Yes that leads to the analogy that crimes happen everywhere, even under catholic whites - No link  to homogeneity of "races"
shoulda have read the post i quoted too

Not black kids. Although... (http://newjimcrow.com/)
Not gay kids.
Not women.

careful, the politically correct crowd will be at your throat over a comment like this (even though its 100% true)

Never leave a child alone our society today is not safe as before because there are alots of children being abducted..