[thatoneguy]

This reads a lot like my childhood of the '80s and early '90s in the US with zero supervision due to having a single mom.

Total survivorship bias, however, as plenty of bad things happened to my fellow kids that I was lucky enough to escape. And even though I made it through, it doesn't mean I don't have at least one story where I was chased around a big empty field by another kid wielding a rusty machete.

And it's not all pickled herring and aquavit in Norway, as well. A story like this would surprise a lot of people, even in the US:

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/mar/20/norway-t...

[jprd]

This is eerie to me, I could have made the exact same post, but with s/machete/chain.

USA here, now raising my own spawn.

Personally cannot grok the change in what today, I would let them do on their own - against what I was doing on my own, at the same or younger age, out of necessity in the 80s.