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I find it very hard to believe you're arguing in anything near good faith. 3-4 generations have grown up under "suburban car culture" and the changes we're com

• woodruffw 4y ago
  I think I covered this: I identify "suburban car culture" with the completion of interstate highways (and beltways) around major cities. The Interstate Highway System wasn't even begun until the late 1950s. And as I mentioned in the previous comment, there are confounding factors that explain why moral panic about childhood safety didn't really emerge until the mid-to-late 1980s (which, note, is about one generation after the first demographic of baby boomers was born in early suburbs).
  • hedora 4y ago
    The moral panic about child safety wasn't a thing where I was until at least the late nineties (when I stopped paying attention).
    • woodruffw 4y ago
      The Satanic Panic[1] and the McMartin preschool trial[2] were both in the early 1980s, and were key moments in the popular conception of child abuse. Another wave happened in the 1990s with prominent kidnappings/murders of children, which might be the one you remember. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
      • hedora 4y ago
        The first two involved the fear that kids would be abused by their caretakers/parents, not that walking down the street was unsafe.
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