Seriously this. My wife talks about a very free range early 70s childhood, with the punchline "Of course, one person was molested, and another was killed by a c

Seriously this. My wife talks about a very free range early 70s childhood, with the punchline "Of course, one person was molested, and another was killed by a car while free-ranging". We have a Chinese friend who talked about all of kids teaching each other to swim without adult instruction in a (pretty polluted-sounding river). When we made impressed noises, she said "well, of course several children died per year".