Comment by GeekyBear

The notion that children are not allowed to play outside within a couple of blocks of their home seems like a mass delusion to me.

However, I'm GenX and having all my friends and I roam the neighborhood from the time we got out of school until our parents got home from work with no supervision seems perfectly normal.

"Come home when the street lights come on" and television PSAs asking "It's nine o'clock, do you know where your children are?" were the norm in the 70's.