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yeah, i would be extra protective of my kids... i would walk them from and to the school as u do...
and if i leave with them someone, i have to have 150% assurance/trust of that person (even if they are a relative/family member)
yes, things used to be different in our times... but it is a strange world out there, and my feelings are not based on paranoid fears or anything...
i used to live in an islamic/arab country before, and there were incidents of child abduction and abuse (theres no shortage of sick people out there) that occured and I personally came to know about/discover ...if i knew of several such incidents personally/first hand then imagine, how many occured on a daily basis, that i didn't find out about
(it wasn't an openly talkabout/discussed thing, because it was kept hush hush for either the sake of child/family OR was not even discussed in general because it was a very taboo topic and there were no legal consequences for the predator...)
when i moved to a western country I discovered that despite legal consequences/enforcements, and sexual freedom, there was again no shortage of sick people in this new western country either... again, i came to know of a couple of incidents personally of child abuse...
so yea, better be safe than sorry...
i don't know what the world is coming to...but we can no longer simply think along the lines "oh let the kids be kids, let them explore, let them have unsupervised freedom, let them be independent...."
unfortunately, u have to devise other tactful methods of developing independence in your kids which still allow supervision and oversight from parents...
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