Entry Number 26

Can children be left alone?

I think that the times have changed and now is very dangerous to allow children play at public places unsupervised. Nowadays, no one wants to get involved if they witness something unusual. The fact that you cannot rely on strangers it makes it more difficult to feel safe at a playground for instance. If you are not sure that anything is going to happen to your child at a place for children to have fun, how are you going to let your children walk freely across a city, with all the dangers that are present there? The solution would be to keep children locked or to change a reality we are living in for a more safe and peaceful one. Many parents are concerned with their children’ safety this is because we are aware that the world is not as simple as in the past. You could easily send a kid to the market but now you do not know who can he come across in his way so it is more reliable if you go instead. It is very sad but is a reality that it can not be changed from one day to the other so we must adapt ourselves to place we are living in.