Europe is behind - but it goes in the same direction. It is not that this is very new - my father (in the 1950s) used to wander whole day in the forests, I did

Europe is behind - but it goes in the same direction. It is not that this is very new - my father (in the 1950s) used to wander whole day in the forests, I did not have exactly the same freedom (in 1980s) - but still a lot of it, a few years ago when I let my 5 years old daughter to go outside alone (we live in a fenced off condo, a couple of hundreds of meters long) then other parents wanted me to stop this because their children wanted too.