Good comment.
I remember in the summer you went outside after breakfast, came home for lunch, went back outside til supper. We rode our bikes all over the place, sometimes on the sidewalk and sometimes in traffic.
We were far more active in non-structured activities. Nobody seemed to be worried that we’d get “taken captive” by bad guys.
I remember the woman at the local airport chased us off the runway riding our bikes. She had a broom. Home for dinner, not a word. Today it’d be Blackhawk helicopters, DHS, arrests,, terrorist charges, serious news reports, etc etc.
Meanwhile, we would hire a moslem like Brennan to run the CIA, and be sending welfare money to the Chechyn cells in Boston.
The world is a very different place today. One of the reasons that nobody seemed worried that you would disappear with some stranger, is because there were mothers, at home, keeping an eye out for what was happening around their home.
I think it has been more than a decade; but, when I was home with small kids we had a child abducted in our community. Now, she was dropped off at a local shopping mall; but, she had been molested. The police came to speak to the parents at my kid's school and one of the things the police said has stuck with me ever since.
The little girl walked part of the way home with a schoolmate; but, they parted company where she turned down one street and he went further on to his own street. The girl disappeared. When the police canvassed the neighborhood, what they found was that no one saw anything because no one was home. The moms were working, the dads were working, the kids were not home from school yet. There was no one to notice a stranger hanging around their street, no one to notice whether or not the girl had passed their house.
Now, as I said, the girl was not killed; but she was assaulted. When mothers left the home to have their "careers"; they left a large hole in the community in small, but important, ways.
You're not from Cleveland eh?