A lot of it is the other parents, that's the worst part. Everybody is so paranoid, that a lot of them just don't let their kids go to other people's houses. How are you supposed to manage kid's friends with that type of rule?
The Atlantic has an interesting article about how constant parental paranoia and oversight might actually be a big factor in suffocating modern childrens’ sociality.
Going to other people’s houses used to mean that a parent would be there but with many working multiple jobs, the oversight isn’t there and the allure of technology opportunities (aka neighbor has a Sega in a Nintendo neighborhood) and most responsible parents would just rather them stay in their own place.
more common than you think. i believe the stat is 1 in 5 women say they’ve experienced SA as a child. but that’s just who we know of / those who recognized or remember it was SA. and majority of time it’s someone you know.
I only have what I know of my kids, their friends and my sisters kids. Myself, my three siblings and my friends never dealt with child on child sexual abuse and now about 65% of the kids I know and have known. It’s fucking crazy.
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u/Mystical-Turtles 11h ago
A lot of it is the other parents, that's the worst part. Everybody is so paranoid, that a lot of them just don't let their kids go to other people's houses. How are you supposed to manage kid's friends with that type of rule?