• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Can confirm. We used to play till 10PM (cause we had to wake up early for school) around the apartment bloc and around the neighbourhood. In the pre-cellpone era parents would call their kids from their balconies to come home. At the height of organized crime that arose post-1989, people felt that safe about their kids playing unsupervised.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s kind of unthinkable today honestly. I don’t know anybody who’d just let their kids out on their own, and you’d probably get charged with neglect if you did.

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        2 hours ago

        A friend got in trouble for letting her kids play IN HER SUBURBAN BACKYARD without her watching them. A neighbour called the authorities.