How #90s kids were robbed of their childhood independence. #shorts #genz

in the 1990s as the crime rate was

plummeting as American life was getting

safer and safer Americans freaked out

and thought that if they take their eyes

off their children the children will be

abducted the fear was stoked by cable TV

in the 1980s there were a few

high-profile abductions but it's not

until the 1990s that we really start

locking kids up and saying you cannot be

outside until you're 14 or 15. we took

this essential period of childhood from

about 8 to 12 when kids throughout

history have practiced Independence have

gotten into Adventures have made rafts

and floated down the Mississippi River

we took that period and said you don't

get to practice Independence until it's

too late until that period is over now a

couple years before you go to college

now you can go outside oh okay go off to

college and a lot of them are not ready

they're just not used to being

independent when they get to College

they're asking adults for more help

protect me from this punish him for

saying that protect me from that book

this we think is part of the problem