Your talking about fear not actual danger. Crime statistics are very much down from the 1950's. As are playground accidents and automobile fatalities.. It's no

Your talking about fear not actual danger. Crime statistics are very much down from the 1950's. As are playground accidents and automobile fatalities.. It's not necessarily fear, from the parents, of actual danger, it's fear of being charged with neglect. It, too, may be an unfounded fear, but until being a busybody who needless charges someone with neglect is a crime, crime and accident statistics don't necessarily enter into it.