How often in your life were you really threatened by crazy people or pitbulls?
As a kid that played without parental oversight we met every crazy person and every dog in town. This is still quite normal in the area I grew up in and I have never heard from anybody ever being seriously hurt by a dog or a crazy person in our area. Avoiding dangerous situations is something kids have to learn, and kids are not stupid. It is much more common that kids are too afraid than kids not having respect in the presence of a noticed danger.
That being said, many places in the US are downright kid-hostile, often because a failure to deal with social, economic, mental problems adequately or have good spacing concepts where people outside of cars count something.
A few times per week. Many people here have aggressive dogs and zero control over them.
Dog bite is a serous injury that requires hospital visit and painful antibiotics for several days. Saying anything else is a bs!
> Avoiding dangerous situations is something kids have to learn, and kids are not stupid
You can not avoid dogs! They are everywhere, are larger, faster and with zero responsibility! There is adult who owns the dog! Putting blame and responsibility on kids is foolish! Staying indoor is only logical solution!
> are too afraid
... Kid provoked the dog attack by being afraid... My favorite excuse.
Kids need to go outdoors on their own to grow up. They need to extend the radius in which they be active on their own. You can't lock kids until they go to college or university. Otherwise they become young adults unfit to live an independent live.
> Kids are staying at home voluntary, because they are shit scared of dogs and crazies!!
What city do you live in?
Never seen or heard of such a place, but I'm not going to pretend to know every city in the world, so very curious to know where the town is overrun by dogs and crazy people running after you (if nothing else, so I don't visit).
As a kid that played without parental oversight we met every crazy person and every dog in town. This is still quite normal in the area I grew up in and I have never heard from anybody ever being seriously hurt by a dog or a crazy person in our area. Avoiding dangerous situations is something kids have to learn, and kids are not stupid. It is much more common that kids are too afraid than kids not having respect in the presence of a noticed danger.
That being said, many places in the US are downright kid-hostile, often because a failure to deal with social, economic, mental problems adequately or have good spacing concepts where people outside of cars count something.