Kids today have a lot less freedom than their parents did.

[leopard2]

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 

[MF Doom]

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.

More//...http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/08/slate_childhood_survey_results_kids_today_have_a_lot_less_freedom_than_their.html?wpsrc=sp_all_article_storypromo

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.

[countryfree]

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.

[MF Doom]

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.

[Aggressor66]

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.

[RodeoX]

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/

[criptix]

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.

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.

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

[criptix]

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.

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

[bryant.coleman]

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.

[criptix]

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

[Beliathon]

Not black kids. Although...
Not gay kids.
Not women.

[MF Doom]

Not black kids. Although...
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)

[waterpile]

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