>Worse, it leads to situations where society seems to want to flat out be kid free in many ways. With families reportedly afraid to let their kids walk to and from school unsupervised.

I'm not seeing the correlation / causation here.

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saltcured 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not sure, but I think the earlier post is implying a (false) dichotomy between:

A. "Your kid is not my problem"

B. "Your kid is everyone's problem"

	▲	taeric 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Less the false dichotomy, and more the stickiness of each of those options. To your point (I think), those aren't the only options available, but people do seem to be attracted quite heavily to them.

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taeric 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I was referencing the towns that have called the cops because there were some unsupervised kids in a park. I comfort myself by saying this isn't nearly as common as the fear mongers online would have you think. That there are cases it happens still worries me.

Note that I'm not even necessarily worried about cops getting called. Quite the contrary, I am fine with the idea of cops having a more constant presence around parks and such. I do worry about people that get up in arms about how things are too unsafe for kids to be let outside. If that is the case, what can we do to make it safe?