More importantly, is making an 8 year old kid a km by themselves in rural America a significant risk ? I feel like I would have done this 1000 times by the tim

More importantly, is making an 8 year old kid a km by themselves in rural America a significant risk ? I feel like I would have done this 1000 times by the time i was 8 in the rural Australia, is the danger in the US that much larger ?