I also thought this kind of development was specific to only my country, but it's an almost global trend. Parents keep their kids closer (the last few decades c

I also thought this kind of development was specific to only my country, but it's an almost global trend. Parents keep their kids closer (the last few decades compared with those before), under more supervision, are more suspicious of strangers, and so on, in general. Moving into denser cities is also a global trend, and probably one that's correlated with it.