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You said well the response I try to give when someone talks about the "old days" before safety was such a big issue. I especially like to point out the part about how we're around to say "we survived," but others aren't.

Sure, like most other Freepers I'm nostalgic for when I used to bike all around town for hours at a time. But whenever there's a story in the news now about a kid getting abducted, most Freepers are also quick to jump on the parents for not keeping a close enough watch on their kid. Times do change, and we have to change with them.

I think there were many pedophiles in the days we are discussing here. I think they were not as well known because people just didn't accept it. And the children who were victimized would never tell anyone either. We were taught to trust adults and listen. That was kind of wrong. Now we teach our kids that if a stranger tries to talk to them to come home immediately. Adults shouldn't be talking to children who aren't theirs unless they think the child is lost or hurt. We are probably lucky, those of us here who were never a victim of pedophilia. Those who were grew up to become the monsters we have today. I think those monsters may go away in a few generations because we teach our children not to be so trusting now. I still tell my daughter to respect adults and authority, but if one tries to talk to her for no reason, she will play shy and tell them to ask me or my wife.