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But most families had only one car so people biked and walked many places.[/quote]

And because we biked and walked everywhere, we were allowed to. My parents, in the 70's, thought nothing of having us elementary-aged kids walk the 5 miles home from church if they were staying late for a meeting and we wanted to go home. There was only one car, so we walked/biked to the grocery store to pick things up for our parents, to school, to the park, to the library...

Kids have much smaller spaces they're allowed to be in now. If you let your 8 year old walk 5 miles home from church or bike 3 miles to the store to pick up some milk, there's a decent chance someone would call the police. Kids today have more access to organized sports, but those are scheduled practices to a specific purpose. It's not a group of young kids telling their parents they're walking a couple miles down the road to the state park and going on a 3 mile hike and they'll be back by dark.[/quote]

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