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Downtown silver spring was a smidge different in 1970s wasn't it?  And were you walking in groups of kids?  And again, you have not supported your claim that most 6yos walked by themselves.  [/quote]

Oh, we're back to the idea that urban areas are dangerous for children.

What kind of evidence would you accept to support the claim that it used to be routine, normal, and unremarkable for six-year-olds to walk to school by themselves at least part of the way? (And how old are you?)[/quote]

I'm 40.  Do you have any stats?  Never said urban areas are per se dangerous.  But certainly more traffic there than there used to be. [/quote]

If you're 40, you're too young to remember. If your parents are still alive, talk to them about what they used to do. Talk to older relatives and neighbors about what they used to do. Read books (fiction as well as non-fiction) published before 1980, or referring to times before 1980. I honestly don't understand why it's evidently so difficult for people who are too young to have experienced this themselves that it really was so.[/quote]

I know what my parents did.  I posted my dad was walked by teenage sister in the fifties.  I just don't buy the "most 6 year olds" claim.  Unless it was totally residential, not far, with packs of kids.   Most 8-9 year olds, sure I buy that. [/quote]

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