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[quote=Anonymous]new poster here... ...I grew up in a crack-infested East Coast city in the 1980s and my parents still let us walk to the bus stop, our friend's houses, the park, etc. by ourselves. Occasionally cars would stop, invariably driven by neighbors/friend's parents/teachers/local shop keepers/random nice people etc. and offer us rides or just make sure we were OK. I know that teachers, local shop keepers, maybe even neighbors would now feel uncomfortable offering children rides b/c of liability issues or fear of being labeled a molester. I think that is the big difference between then and now. It's not that it's less safe now - it's that decent people feel less comfortable intervening in the lives of other people's children, for fear of being accused of imaginary sex crimes etc. Ordinary people's hesitation to get involved in local children's lives make local children less safe. [/quote]
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