Mom Network

In response to this post my mother told me that I was never as unsupervised as I thought I was as a kid. She alluded to a "mom network" that kept watch over the children in the neighborhood. A sort of community based method of child rearing. Apparently, there were dangers in the world when I was growing up just like there are today. The difference was we had a strong community presence in our lives to buffer us from really hazardous stuff.

In conclusion, it would seem a breakdown in community has made the world a more threatening place, not an upsurge in threats.