I dont' know how old you are, but I think it's a different world today. My parents were strict, but they let me do things I wouldn't want my dau or someday grandchildren do. Just because it's a much more dangerous world.
It is a much more dangerous world and that is sad. Kids don't have much time to just be kids anymore.
Agreed, the world is geometrically more dangerous. I for one know plenty of parents, who even post family photos or kids pix to personal family websites...becuase predators can go shopping online for targets.
Makes your blood curdle.
Brett W.
Actually, it really isn't. Crime, especially violent crime, has been way down over the past 15 years. Crime rates against children have not risen in decades -- and if kids are abused, it's almost always by a close friend or family member.
While all parents should take reasonable precautions, the odds that your child will be kidnapped at gunpoint and turned into an enslaved prostitute are somewhat less them finding a suitcase with $50 million in it on a suburban sidewalk.