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Where do the children play?

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409 points casca | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 13:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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emil-lp ◴[17 Nov 25 07:37 UTC] No.45951580[source]▶
> Consider some statistics on the American childhood, drawn from children aged 8-12: 62% have not walked/biked somewhere (a store, park, school) without an adult

This is really not representative for other Western countries. Where I'm from, I would say that 75% of 6 year olds walk/bike to school alone, and 100% of older kids do.

> In physical space, Western children are almost comically sheltered.

I think the author should stick with "kids in the USA" when he means that.

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CalRobert ◴[17 Nov 25 08:00 UTC] No.45951679[source]▶
Where are you from? I would say that seems accurate for Ireland, for instance.
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1. stevekemp ◴[17 Nov 25 10:08 UTC] No.45952289[source]▶
I live in Finland, and here the kids mostly walk to/from their schools themselves and that starts around age 7.

Sometimes the kids walk alone, sometimes they pickup friends en route, or they have to take a bus/tram.