When children do do those things, people who have nothing better to do call the cops on the parents, and the cops actually respond. Many parents are afraid to

When children do do those things, people who have nothing better to do call the cops on the parents, and the cops actually respond. Many parents are afraid to let their kids out to do normal kid things and wont even let their kids walk home from the school bus stop. We've gone from a society where it was normal for kids to spend all day out and about without supervision, so one where play is highly regulated and monetized, and supervision is suffocating.