Apprehensive parents, fearful of everything from "stranger danger" to traffic and crime, also keep offspring close to home. A study of three generations of 9-year-olds found that in 1990, the radius around the home where children were allowed to roam on their own had shrunk to a ninth of what it had been in 1970. For latchkey children who return from school to an empty house, there is a stern new parental command: "Don't you dare go outside."
A very satisfying book for those who think that their Trail Report will be over-googled. See! There will be no-one in the woods in the future if we are all too paranoid. Just more apocalypse predictions...
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