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As a Swiss with a small child, this is the main reason why I couldn't move to the US or UK. There always seems to be plenty of children, of various ages, runni
by Reason077 10y ago
As a Swiss with a small child, this is the main reason why I couldn't move to the US or UK.
There always seems to be plenty of children, of various ages, running around my London neighbourhood unsupervised. The noisy little blighters!
- m_mueller 10y agoThat's good to hear. Some of the things I hear from the UK sound at least as authoritarian as the US, so I thought that CPS has similarly harsh measures - apparently it's not that big of an issue?
- Symbiote 10y agoWorking class and upper class children seem to have this freedom in London, having lived in both to press of area. When I lived in Richmond there were often children alone on the bus or train with expensive belongings like musical instruments or sports equipment. My middle class parents would never have allowed that - but they would expect me to get to school on public transport alone. Also, there are no rules or laws against this. It's cultural. See http://www.btp.police.uk/advice_and_information/travelling_safely/unaccompanied_children.aspx http://www.btp.police.uk/advice_and_information/travelling_s... for one example - there's no minimum age to travel alone on a train.
- pjc50 10y agoThere were a couple of highly publicised cases which I suspect may not be accurately reported in the newspapers, but generally UK child protection is under-funded and errs on the side of non-intervention. Which has tragic consequences of its own: Victoria Climbie, "Baby P" and so on.