• Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    Is it unusual for 10 year old kids to walk around alone where you are from? Its quite old to just atart with that here. Many kids go to school alone from first grade onwards.

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      21 hours ago

      Yes It’s unusual for parents to allow their ten year old kids to walk that far alone in our rural area and spend hours away unsupervised in a busy tourist town. It never used to be but the influence of American society via tv radio movies and more inundating people in Canada every day has certainly changed opinions like this. We got phone calls when they were little playing outside in the yard on their own. A coyote was going to eat them. Now we get calls that someone will kidnap them. It’s rather ridiculous. There have been decades of cop shows and news reports telling folks people are bad. Now they really believe that.