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>car is much more convenient for families with children. How so? Kids can not travel in cars alone because they have no license. Kids can travel in trains alon
by anonymfus 11y ago
>car is much more convenient for families with children.
How so? Kids can not travel in cars alone because they have no license. Kids can travel in trains alone.
- nn3 11y agoRemember the US is the nation of the helicopter parents, where it is common to drive the kids to school and everywhere else until they get their own driving license. And cops are common to pick up younger kids which are around on their own because it is so unusual Putting a kid on its own on a train would be absolutely unthinkable.
- paulhauggis 11y ago"Kids can travel in trains alone." Parents can't even let their kids walk to school alone. I seriously doubt they would allow their kids to ride a train alone.
- Crito 11y agoThat case was an aberration. That's why it became such big news. If that were the norm, it would not have become national news. This said, helicopter parents are real. I've ridden on amtrak many dozens of times, but never saw an unaccompanied child.
- mentat 11y agoI've seen many on Caltrain in the mornings but many many more in Japan.
- Symbiote 11y agoThe only time I used Amtrak there was a child in the opposite seat. Staff put a sticker over his seat announcing that he was alone, which I thought was odd. Meanwhile round here in London children get free bus travel, so it's very common to see them on local buses, and sometimes trains (tends to be wealthier kids on trains).