I went Trick or Treating with friends by ourselves when I was 7. I can't really imagine parents letting their kids do that now, but at the time it didn't seem that big a deal to me. I guess times change. You get all the Gen Xers now having kids and being paranoid about everything. The fact they're exposed to 24/7 barrages from the media about pedophiles and murderers probably doesn't help.
I guess I don't really know since I'm not a parent. But it seems a lot more complicated being a kid these days than when I was a kid, that's for sure.
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