Well ... I sure wouldn’t let the kids play in the park or walk home like that without some adult in charge watching them every single second!
I walked to school and home. In K-6 the walk was about half a mile. Jr High we walked 1.9 miles, HS was close to a mile. Nothing happened, there were reports of people exposing themselves. Kids were grabbed on the news, but Moms and Dads were not frightened, they told us about dangers and to get home right after school. Now people drive to the end of their driveways to pick up their child that is bussed a few hundred feet. We live in a world of paranoia, and laziness. The streets are safer than they have been in years. Not letting children walk home, leads to less children walking, making it more dangerous because of lack of a crowd, and they get fat.
You are a freak!!!!
Same here. It's not the kids; it's the weirdos outside. Twelve is about the right age for boys. Girls, thirty or forty.