Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills

Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by satvikpendem on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:59PM (#34917175)

I grew up in India, a much poorer nation than the US, and I played outside all the time, walking to relatives' houses and going to hang out with friends. I highly doubt it's the poverty causing this kind of thing in the US. Seems more to me the high amount of media "stranger danger" affecting people's viewpoints.

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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by s1artibartfast on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:30PM (#34917594)

I think this is a key perspective. In the US you will have rich neighborhoods where kids play freely outside and poor neighborhoods where kids play freely outside. It is in the mixed neighborhoods there is an overwhelming fear of children playing

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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by sashank_1509 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @08:31PM (#34919496)

the highest murder rate in US is 15.8 Louisiana while the highest in India is 6.5 (Patna). Most places in India have half or lesser murder rates compared to the average in US. India in general is just a much safer country, not in the same league as China, Japan but far safer than US. Growing up in Bangalore, I walked the streets regularly at 2AM when I was a teen, something that I’m scared to do as a full grown adult in SF

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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by seanmcdirmid on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:03AM (#34921394)

If you include traffic deaths (more likely to cause kids to get killed than murders), India and China look much worse.

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