[I want the USA back]

Just part of the larger trend: people lacking trust in others.

[Radagast the Fool]

What surprised me this year was the number of teenagers-—yes, TEENAGERS!—who had parents with them!! The parents didn’t come to the door, and weren’t in costume, but still...
If my parents insisted on accompanying me when I was a teenager I would’ve died of embarrassment and not gone trick or treating at all!
Weird!!

[MamaB]

That mistrust should have started in the 70’s. My daughter and I were talking the other day. She told me people tried to get her in their cars numerous times back then. She said one man tried to pull her in the car through the window. She never said a word back then. We all thought it were a safe neighborhood. We moved there when she was 4 and moved away when she was 12.

[i_robot73]

Trust has nothing to do with it. Just the pussification of the U.S. going along at break-neck speed.