I’d like to know when that time existed. Because it hasn’t existed in at LEAST the last 55 years. Kidnapping children wasn’t daily news, but it happened. I remember being scared.
I’m sure that time never existed in the purest sense, but there used to be a time when kids could wander around freely without too much worry.
I’m a child of the 70’s and I wandered up and down my entire town of 50,000 people without my parents worrying.