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Safetyism is a contributing cause, but children have far fewer siblings than they used to. This means it's harder to go outside semi-supervised, and parents are

Safetyism is a contributing cause, but children have far fewer siblings than they used to. This means it's harder to go outside semi-supervised, and parents are more protective of their kids because there are fewer of them. Differences in reproductive strategies result in differences of parental care.

brovid19 3y ago
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kredd 3y ago
How sound is this argument? It doesn’t pass my smell test as from what I recall 25+ years ago, some of my friends didn’t have siblings. Yet we ran around up until the street lights were on. Looking at people with children in my circles right now though, they would absolutely never let their kids do that.
miah_ 3y ago
I'm a only child, and was a free-range/latch-key kid in the 80's. I'm thankful for my neighborhood friends, they were a excellent safety substitute for my non-existent siblings.
- zer00eyz 3y ago
  I too am a only child, and was a free-range/latch-key kid in the 80's. We lived on a somewhat quiet dead end street. The neighbor kids were fun but we got into all sorts of nonsense... I have a very distinct memory of my parents taking me to go furniture shopping at about the age of 8 or 9. It was a fate worse than death. Do you have any idea how boring furniture is to a small child. I remember coming home, rounding a curve on our street and seeing the end of it. SO. MANY. FIRETRUCKS. I missed the roman candle fight, I missed the dry pine going up like a torch. I missed the fire department (small town they all came it was an even) and the police. Dumb luck kept me out of a lot of trouble in my youth. it. It's no wonder im not dead.
  - Clubber 3y ago
    >I missed the roman candle fight, I missed the dry pine going up like a torch. I missed the fire department (small town they all came it was an even) and the police. Sadly, today, those kids would probably have been rounded up, arrested and charged with felony arson, perhaps as an adult in many states. I remember lighting off fireworks with a neighbor and his older brother. One errantly went into the woods across the street. A few minutes later, we saw smoke. We all went over and stomped it out. Fun times.

brovid19 3y ago

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kredd 3y ago

How sound is this argument? It doesn’t pass my smell test as from what I recall 25+ years ago, some of my friends didn’t have siblings. Yet we ran around up until the street lights were on. Looking at people with children in my circles right now though, they would absolutely never let their kids do that.

miah_ 3y ago

I'm a only child, and was a free-range/latch-key kid in the 80's. I'm thankful for my neighborhood friends, they were a excellent safety substitute for my non-existent siblings.

zer00eyz 3y ago
I too am a only child, and was a free-range/latch-key kid in the 80's. We lived on a somewhat quiet dead end street. The neighbor kids were fun but we got into all sorts of nonsense... I have a very distinct memory of my parents taking me to go furniture shopping at about the age of 8 or 9. It was a fate worse than death. Do you have any idea how boring furniture is to a small child. I remember coming home, rounding a curve on our street and seeing the end of it. SO. MANY. FIRETRUCKS. I missed the roman candle fight, I missed the dry pine going up like a torch. I missed the fire department (small town they all came it was an even) and the police. Dumb luck kept me out of a lot of trouble in my youth. it. It's no wonder im not dead.
- Clubber 3y ago
  >I missed the roman candle fight, I missed the dry pine going up like a torch. I missed the fire department (small town they all came it was an even) and the police. Sadly, today, those kids would probably have been rounded up, arrested and charged with felony arson, perhaps as an adult in many states. I remember lighting off fireworks with a neighbor and his older brother. One errantly went into the woods across the street. A few minutes later, we saw smoke. We all went over and stomped it out. Fun times.