It is disgusting so many parents are helicopter parents, always hovering. Yes, times are a bit different, but they are paranoid beyond reason. What ever happened with “be back by dark”.
I am not so sure it is crime but just the general attitude has changed. I and most of my Brothers and Sisters remember being picked up by the Florida Highway Patrol and given a ride home.
I would bet that is considered against their rules now. My Father’s generation remembers when child killers were grabbed by the men of the area and summarily shot to death.
Well my parents were ahead of the trend.With my father expecting every waking minute be spent in farm labor, from the time I was big enough to carry a bucket of water , to “keep you out of trouble” and my mother constantly checking on what I was doing because I might get hurt,there is little doubt it hurt or delayed my personal,professional and social development.Both feared “bad” outside influences so much that neither allowance money nor going out to movies or school games ever happened.The irony is that they had both had more independence while teenagers but ABSOLUTELY refused to allow such in their children,and criticized other parents.
Parents don’t do themselves or their children any good by being control freaks.