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I think that arc largely peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with stranger danger and the satanic panic nonsense. Helicopter parents and people calling social service
by throwup238 3y ago
I think that arc largely peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with stranger danger and the satanic panic nonsense. Helicopter parents and people calling social services on unattended kids was already a meme by the 90s.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoIt metastasized. It didn’t decrease. Now kids are barely allowed to go outside on their own
- resoluteteeth 3y ago> I think that arc largely peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with stranger danger and the satanic panic nonsense. Helicopter parents and people calling social services on unattended kids was already a meme by the 90s. It stopped being a meme because the expected level of parental supervision of children got much higher and it went from being perceived as a thing that only weird people to what is required of parents in most places. Calling social services on unattended kids isn't something that makes the news as much simply because almost all parents agree that children should never be left unattended until they are old enough to have a driver's license now and there aren't any unattended children to have social services called on them
- beaeglebeached 3y agoYet if you attend to a child as anything but a stereotypical mom look you'll have the police called and men with guns roll up and scare your child and detain them because it's "suspicious" as happened to me as a racially mixed dad-family at the park with my kid. Accused of kidnapping and held for a good hour. You literally cannot win.
- clipsy 3y agoParents weren't GPS tracking their children in the 1990s.
- jader201 3y agoTo be fair, GPS tracking may actually make parents feel more comfortable allowing their kids to free roam.
- kspacewalk2 3y agoOkay, so it's supervised roam. Who cares? It's much better than keeping your kids at home and only allowing them out on pre-arranged "play dates", which is the other major alternative.
- beaeglebeached 3y agoIn much of USA allowing free roam and not repenting and recanting the sin when CPS inevitably called and starts the inquisition will end with them in foster care with the same problems but now broken continuity of care.
- clipsy 3y agoIt would more accurately be called unfree roaming.
- dghlsakjg 3y agoIf your parents know where you are with 3m accuracy it isn’t really free roaming. In other words, being watched or tracked will definitely affect a kids behavior.
- ars 3y agoIf a kid changes behavior because of a parent watching then that kid absolutely needs watching. It's still free roaming because the kid is 100% in charge of where they will go. That's the part that matters, not that someone can tell where they are.
- throwbadubadu 3y agoGeez what? If a kid greater certain age does not change behaviour with parents watching please see a psychologist with it.
- nradov 3y agoA lot of that cultural change in attitudes can be traced back to the Etan Patz kidnapping case in 1979. That case received widespread, prolonged media attention at the time which made many parents more fearful. He was one of the first missing children to be featured on milk cartons which made it impossible to ignore. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/etan-patz-case-verdict-pedro-hernandez-guilty-murder-suspect-in-boys-1979-disappearance/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/etan-patz-case-verdict-pedro-he...
- granshaw 3y agoIt seemed free roaming was still widely accepted in the 90s though? What changed since the 2000s?
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- hydrok9 3y agoThe change happened gradually throughout the 90's. People born in the late 80's typically had free-roam experience, while those born in the miid-late 90's did not,
- rawgabbit 3y agoFor me personally, the ability to look at the sex offender registry and realize there are 4 registered folks within a mile of my house.