1. Instead of 13 kids or 10 kids per family as in the earlier centuries, people are raising fewer children, hence no replacements.
2. Perverts. In the old days there weren't as many/they knew that justice would be swift and terminal. Used to be that institutions like the Boy Scouts were safe but now that the imbeciles that run the Scouts think that a homo is an ideal person to take your kids into the woods, forget that.
3. Random violence. How often have we seen where drive-by shootings - usually gangs - killed a lot of people the morons weren't even aiming at?
4. Traffic. Where we used to bicycle, play ball in the streets, every dimwit that feels like drive as fast as possible to get to Point B without a lot of regard for innocents in the street.
5. Drug dealers. Kids somewhere out of direct view are quickly targeted by the swine who make their living killing everyone else off with their crap.
Need I go on? If you didn't already know the answer to the question then you aren't a parent.
Also this coincides with women now running everything in the country. Modern women see danger, rape, kidnapping, sex abuse, etc everywhere they look.
They find the hidden “danger” in every sane activity people used to do and pass their nutty fears into their kids.
Parents have to let their children breathe and experience life for what it is. Sheltering them does them great harm later on.
Is it just me, or is this an incorrect usage of “fearful”?
With the inception of 911 as an emergency number and when children in school were encouraged to call on parents who corrected their children
When government decided your children were not yours but only in paying for their needs and nothing else and if you were on welfare then they weren’t yours at all but government property
When corporal punishment was deemed cruel and unusual in school and considered child abuse at home
When Time out was considered punishment enough for anything and everything
When Psychologist never having children begin to tell you how to raise your children !
When parents were held accountable for their children’s behaviour but were not allowed to modify that behavior in fear of being modified themselves for modifying behaviour {dont interfere with government modification} schools
But the most important in my opinion the removal of God from everything God and man has created together including the inception and replacing it with liberalism and abortion
On or Around 1970 !
The same people who are terrified to let their kids ride their bikes around the block have no problem with those kids learning all the bizarre ways to have gay sex at school.
My daughter certainly is old school. She got married about two years ago and she loves her (now) 13 year old step son but boy he has to toe the line. Funny thing his that is grades have gotten better, is doing well in baseball, spends time at church helping with numerous projects and quite frankly is a great kid that I enjoy spending time with. I do think he is looking at joining the Marines as soon as possible so he can get in a less demanding environment. :)
Also when you’re only a part time parent, you don’t know how the village perves are influencing your kids. Drugs, sex, crimes etc.
Excerpt:
Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeedOne day last year, a citizen on a prairie path in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst came upon a teen boy chopping wood. Not a body. Just some already-fallen branches. Nonetheless, the onlooker called the cops.
Elsewhere in America, preschoolers at the Learning Collaborative in Charlotte, North Carolina, were thrilled to receive a set of gently used playground equipment. But the kids soon found out they would not be allowed to use it, because it was resting on grass, not wood chips. “It’s a safety issue,” explained a day care spokeswoman. Playing on grass is against local regulations.
And then there was the query that ran in Parents magazine a few years back: “Your child’s old enough to stay home briefly, and often does. But is it okay to leave her and her playmate home while you dash to the dry cleaner?” Absolutely not, the magazine averred: “Take the kids with you, or save your errand for another time.” After all, “you want to make sure that no one’s feelings get too hurt if there’s a squabble.”
The principle here is simple: This generation of kids must be protected like none other. They can’t use tools, they can’t play on grass, and they certainly can’t be expected to work through a spat with a friend.
And this, it could be argued, is why we have “safe spaces” on college campuses and millennials missing adult milestones today. We told a generation of kids that they can never be too safe—and they believed us.
-PJ
There has been as much predatory behavior as there always was.
The only exception is the increase in goverment predation.
Even if you think you live in a safe hood, some nazi will call the cops on you not being attentive enough.
The parents were not prepared to be parents, and the natural reaction to all this natural humanity, dosed with the continuing leftist indoctrination, even out of school, that they couldn't really DO anything .... and BAM, there you have it .... scaredy cat adults afraid they'll say something wrong or do something psychologically damaging to their baby.
Then the kid grows up and asks his father if he goes down on Mom.
Psycho ward city.
It’s very simple, parents don’t see the streets as the safest they’ve ever been.
My 12 yr old nephew gets driven to the bus stop every morning which is literally 4 houses down the street.