Well, I'm glad so many HN commenters enjoyed a pleasant, bucolic childhood wandering freely, but my parents were raised with a similar amount of freedom, but in

Well, I'm glad so many HN commenters enjoyed a pleasant, bucolic childhood wandering freely, but my parents were raised with a similar amount of freedom, but instead had to contend with things like neighborhood perverts sexually harassing/assaulting them, various forms of violence, being attacked by packs of wild dogs, and one of their childhood friends got into the car of someone never identified and later found murdered in a stone quarry. They had the misfortune of living in a low-income neighborhood, and I can understand why me and my siblings weren't given the same amount of freedom growing up. If you have the fortune to be in a place where such freedom isn't so dangerous, congratulations, but I feel it's not necessarily the norm.