In the US, parents are sometimes arrested for letting their children go bike (or walk, or play at playgrounds) without direct supervision. Not to mention that

In the US, parents are sometimes arrested for letting their children go bike (or walk, or play at playgrounds) without direct supervision. Not to mention that parents are constantly fed scare stories about “random creeps” snatching kids up — a profoundly rare occurrence, surely several orders of magnitude less of a risk than that taken on by driving your child to/from school.