Back in the day kids younger than this were mature enough to hold a job. Now they can’t even walk by themselves.
But seriously, times have changed and society has completely different idea of what acceptable risk for a child is than 30 years ago. They will also prosecute you for letting your kids do things that go beyond the limits they established. Not for actually letting your kid get harmed but just for risking it which will always be subjective. Everyone is scared now (even though crime is going down) and you have to be too or they will treat like you’re crazy. For me it’s just another reason not to have kids.
TBF a lot of them died. Humans can be bad at gauging danger. Pre telegraph a child dying is a freak accident and the people of the community would understand it as uncommon, but now that we can collect and transmit data to the extent that we are, we can see patterns about what is dangerous.
I still think there shouldn’t be criminal liability for shit like “child walked into unfenced water”.
Back in the day kids younger than this were mature enough to hold a job. Now they can’t even walk by themselves.
But seriously, times have changed and society has completely different idea of what acceptable risk for a child is than 30 years ago. They will also prosecute you for letting your kids do things that go beyond the limits they established. Not for actually letting your kid get harmed but just for risking it which will always be subjective. Everyone is scared now (even though crime is going down) and you have to be too or they will treat like you’re crazy. For me it’s just another reason not to have kids.
TBF a lot of them died. Humans can be bad at gauging danger. Pre telegraph a child dying is a freak accident and the people of the community would understand it as uncommon, but now that we can collect and transmit data to the extent that we are, we can see patterns about what is dangerous.
I still think there shouldn’t be criminal liability for shit like “child walked into unfenced water”.