>>215144840
Kids still do that though

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>>215144858
They've yet to learn their lesson.

>>215144920
What? they caught him?

Definitely. I can't even understand how this is weird now especially when every kid over 10 has a phone. Grew up in the 90s, latchkey kid, and would regularly be gone all day up to no good. Had normal responsible parents too unlike a lot of my friends. Wasn't at all unusual to be a few miles from home on my bike doing whatever the fuck

>>215144840
Yes. 100% it is impossible to overstate the impact of cellphones, or even answering machines in suburbia.
It’s 10 PM, do you know where your children are?
>I tried calling for permission but nobody answered.
>there wasn’t a phone around
>the line was busy and I ran out of change
I never called and we wouldn’t have asked permission anyways

I blame Hollywood SNL local news stations for making child kidnappings and accidents to be more common than they really are. Because of the sensationalism a lot of kids were robbed of childhood exploration and cooped up indoors all the time.

>>215144920
Richard Allen is innocent.

>>215144840
No, we pretty much had it like you see here. The stupid ones tended to die in funny ways like the kid who took a bet he could climb up a power pole and grabbed the wrong piece of metal at the top, his hand seized around the bar sending current through his body then threw his semi-cooked body to the ground. Shit like that.

>>215145000
https://www.rickallenjustice.com/the-richard-allen-trial-evidence-flaws-and-wrongful-conviction/

>>215144840
Unless you have obnoxiously protective parents, once you are 10 it's conventionally fine for you to go around in the daytime alone or with friends. Not that I'd blame those parents nowadays. Still, I'm sorry you never experienced that.

>>215144840
All the way until 9/11 kids roamed freely

>>215144840
As a teenager we we would have parties in parks late at night where kids from various high schools would meet up and get drunk and smoke cannabis I would come home early in the morning with alcohol I had taken home with me for my brother because I never drank or used drugs pretty surreal experience being the only sober teenager when everyone else is drunk and/or high and having sex

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>>215144840
Would this movie be better if they had an adult chaperone?

>>215144971
My parents were teens in the late 60s early 70s so they weren’t to phased by it. My parents never drove around looking for us, or called friends houses to see if we were there. When it happened to other friends we would naturally make fun of them for it.

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They really had it easy, huh?

In 2025, very young British children are allowed to roam around unspervised. British parents don't give a fuck where their 8-year-old daughter is.

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i'm 33 and had more freedom wandering outdoors with friends as a 12 year old than i did in my own house as a 17 year old.
i have no idea what spurred my parents into deciding socializing was wrong but boy did they fuck me up with that approach

>>215144840
We were

>>215145086
Who is the guy on the bottom row, second from the right?

>>215144840
>80's
Tard.

>>215145135
Ed Kemper

>>215145135
Ed Kemper, decapitated his mother and fucked her disembodied head

>>215145086
Though Rader and Ramirez preferred home invasions.

>>215144840
I grew up in a big city as a millennial and it was still true for me. The disappearance of this sort of thing will absolutely destroy birth rates in the long-term. Having kids is fine if they're basically free range and effectively get raised in the community after they're 6/7. This is how humans grew up for most of our history. This culture we've developed where children live atomised lives and need constant care, supervision and attention until they're 18 places an insane burden on parents. No wonder more and more people are noping the fuck out of that shit.

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>Rich Kids (1979)
>parents let 12yo daughter have a sleepover at male schoolmate's, with the logic that "they're too old to play doctor, and too young to do anything more serious"
>boy lives with divorced father, who they don't know, and they just ask him to come over for a quick chat just to be sure, before they let her
Boomers must've been terrible parents, I can't see this happening even in fiction, nowadays.

>>215145180
The kids are the boomers you fucking retard

Sure, the times have changed, overall people used to go out more. But there are many other factors in to play. Some kids still do that, some kids didn't leave their house back then, it depends on your town, your neighborhood, depends on the family, the culture, and so on.

>>215144840
in the 90s my parents didn't care as long as I was home by dinner

>>215145201
anon please stop embarassing yourself

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>>215145218
Teen pregnancy rates have fallen off a cliff

>>215145218
actual conversation between a group of girls in grade 8, mid 00's:
>yeah i let him finger me
>oh my god, really? have you ever been fingered before then?
>yeah a couple times
>which hole did he finger though? *points at three heights* this, this, or this one?
>*two girls laugh*
>he wasn't fingering my ass or my peehole, moron
the two girls then mocked the other 2 or 3 for their obvious inexperience

>>215145243
because teens are comfortable asking their slut moms for abortion pills now

>>215145238
>Parents in the film are born in 1928, 1941 and 1945 respectively
These aren't boomers you stupid wog

>>215145312
neither are the kids. it's gen xer children of silent generationers

>>215145312
Forgot 1943* as well

>>215145329
Two years after the "cut off" kids are boomers more than gen x you dumb wog cunt

>>215145243
Yeah because girls get put on hormonal birth control the second their mom gets the faintest whiff that their first period is coming. To manage the period pain of course, no other reason. A huge proportion of girls are on the pill before they're out of elementary school.

>50 posts
>no one mentioned how they all had horrible abusive families that wouldn't care if they were gone
DOES ANYONE WATCH FILMS

>>215145243
>pregnancy rates have fallen off a cliff
fixed

>>215145218
To be fair, teen pregnancies aren't such a big deal, all things considered.
The one girl I know that got preggers as a teen has a completely normal, stable job and has a second kid on the way now with the same guy.
Meanwhile I missed my chance of having kids and my long term gf left me. If I had just knocked her up back then we'd probably still be together.
So in total I'd say a teen pregnancy is better and more healthy than waiting with kids until 30.

>>215144840
Yes. Me and my mates would go exploring on our bikes as long as we were back by 7 nobody gave a shit.

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we never found a body but we found porn...Those were the before times when the sears catalog was a viable option.

>>215145371
No the part nobody mentioned is Stand By Me takes place in the 50s not the 80s

>>215145116
Yeah that summary is 100% me lol. The neet not the parent

>>215144840
Yes. We had a high-trust society. That's gone now.

Internet played a huge role in keeping people home too. Don't need to walk and take the bus for miles to meet up with friends if you can just fire up discord for free.

>>215144954
>the line was busy and I ran out of change
But you got a refund if nobody picked up

>>215145718
Sorry I havent used that lie in 30 years or a payphone in 20.
>I must have misdialed.

>>215144840
Yes, it was common for kids to roam freely, at least in rural and suburban areas. Not sure about inner cities because I didn't live in one as a child of that era. It was nice to have that freedom but looking back at it, I do remember more than a few creepy adults who we shouldn't have been around and dangerous situations where we were more lucky than smart when we didn't break a leg or something worse.
>>215145180
Need to dig up the graph (and source data) that showed how much time different generations spent with their children. Boomers spent the least amount of time by a wide margin but you can see the decline starting right before they became parents. When the first wave of latchkey kids became parents, the graph shoots back up, with those parents spending lots of time with their children. It peaks and declines a bit, but not too much with Millennial parents and has been on a plateau ever since.

>>215145243
only blacks and mexicans have babies now

thanks obama

>>215145780
>When the first wave of latchkey kids became parents, the graph shoots back up, with those parents spending lots of time with their children.

They knew too much.

>>215145796
one of my friends had to walk like 2 hours home one day because his phone was constantly busy. He said he
>ripped the fuckin modem right out of the wall because his mom lost track of time on AOL

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>be UK born in 1989
>walked to school on my own aged 5
>was only about 10 minutes through housing estate but still
>age 8 would go out of my street and go all around the local area
>age 11 was cycling 3 miles to the town centre to fuck around at the shops
>in the summer would leave the house in the morning and not return until it was dark or I got hungry
>had a shitty old phone in case of emergency but you could send texts or make calls thats it
>never got kidnapped or murdered

>>215144840
The US was still majority White. We were a higher trust society back then.

>>215144840
>Were kids in the 80s actually allowed to roam around unsupervised
Yes, and well into the 90s as well (depending on location).
I only got in trouble once because I not only didn't stay where I said I was going to (went to a friend's house but got bored and left to go play in the creek near his house), but I was late enough coming home that I nearly missed dinner. My mom had called my friend's house to tell me to come home for dinner and they said I'd left hours ago, which made my mom worry.

There were no other circumstances where I spent most of the day away from my house and ended up getting in trouble for it.

I have 3 kids and would prefer that my oldest actually do anything at all autonomously out of the house with his friends. But "hanging out" and just wandering around the neighborhood unsupervised stopped being a culturally normal thing among kids by 2008.
The area I just moved to in PA has a lot more middle schoolers and teenagers wandering around the neighborhood with their friends during the day than I ever saw in VA.

Maybe I just need to buy my son an eBike so he can join the gang of a dozen kids his age that seem to putter around together down the hill from us.

>>215145859
forgot to mention you never used the phone because your parents told you it was so expensive

>>215145520
The people I know that had children while they were teens turned out well (as did their kids) but that was because they came from supportive families that helped them with providing and raising the child. The hysteria over teen pregnancy was mainly over the bad outcomes that were primarily due to bad family backgrounds. It wasn't PC to point this out because it would have made certain demographic groups look bad. Instead society was propagandized that pregnancy in anyone under about 25 was a terrible thing that ruined lives.

>>215144840
At least 80s kids had some common sense. Today kids will do stupid challenges and get killed.

>>215145883
In around 2004, I remember a classmate asking to borrow my cellphone for half a minute while we were hanging out. I got really anxious because I had no idea how much his call would cost.

>>215144840
I was born in 1989, I legit ran around my neighborhood at age 5 with no shirt on and had to be home when the street lights turned on. Though my mom was a drunk and my dad worked long hours so I was basically on my own, but all my friends played as well.

>>215145903
Difference in common sense and in motivation. Back then we might do something stupid to impress an audience of a couple of friends who didn't really want to see us get hurt. Now they're performing for 'the algorithm' that wants small bites of extreme entertainment for a uncaring global audience.

>>215145874
>Maybe I just need to buy my son an eBike so he can join the gang of a dozen kids his age that seem to putter around together down the hill from us.
Sounds like troublemakers. Christmas is coming.

>>215145659
How did it take this many posts? I'm starting to think people around these parts don't watch movies...

>>215145951
Had a friend get killed doing something similar. He was taking photos of our town's skyline and the railyard was a good place to do it since it had wide open spaces with few obstructions of the skyline. To get a better shot, he stood on the coupler between two boxcars of a stationary train. As he was standing there, the train suddenly jerked into motion. He lost his balance and fell onto the tracks, with his head getting smashed open by train wheels almost immediately.
He had a wife and kids. Really fucked up way to die doing something so seemingly mundane.

>>215145081
Based unwanted accident

I dont remember kids ever being forbidden from fucking around outside. I only saw gets get jannied for wanting to play unchristian videogames

>>215145903
>Today kids will do stupid challenges and get killed.
Helmuts were optional back then, seatbelts too for some families.

>>215144840
that movie took place in the 50s

>>215145986
>who didn't really want to see us get hurt
You're gullible I totally did want to see you get hurt

>>215146028
OP used a photo from a particular movie but used the word "movies". He was using a well known movie to illustrate the general concept. It's fine. Get over your "GOTCHA!" addiction. It's very boring.

>>215144920
Bear spray, actually

Unless you live in an area with a lot of melanin enriched individuals that's the norm.

>>215146071
Found the sociopath.

Movie is set in 1950s. Everyone itt is dumb amerimutt.

>>215146077
Yes but it's an 80s movie so I'm giving him no benefit of the doubt. Also, FUCK YOU.

There's a movie on TV. Four boys are walking on railroad tracks. I better go too.

We were. Even in the middle of the night (when older). The only problem was some asshole cops, but most of them didn't care enough to bother us.
Me and my friends loved to explore sewers, condemned buildings, etc. We got arrested only once when we explored the subway tunnels.
We also liked to stay outdoors for the night sometimes. Tent in the summer, snow fort in the winter. We even build our own treehouse system in the small wood behind the local hospital. We would go from tree to tree using ropes and shit.
I miss my youth...
We also ran around rooftops. That was before parkour became a thing. At least we didn't know about it.
Got arrested once, never broke any bone, got injured only once when a dead tree I was walking on broke and I cut the palm of my hand I don't know how. 14 stitches.
We also foraged for food in the local fields and woods sometimes. Just for fun.
Oh, and we played in construction sites. Once we almost go caught, but we managed to hide. One of us had a real hard time coming out of the pace he hid in as there wasn't any stairs/ladder/rope so we had to find long planks of wood for him to climb on to get out.

>>215144858
Not kids like OP, which is partly why he's here.

>>215146324
Nah, they just called our parents after we got to the police station. They knew we were just messing around so they were pretty cool about the whole thing, but since it was dangerous as hell, they made sure we wouldn't do it again by calling our parents.

>>215146249
>Oh, and we played in construction sites
Dude in our school died doing that. Fell multiple stories.

>>215145116
This image is just me

>>215146390
Sounds like fun

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>>215144840
Growing up in a big city it was more like this

>>215146390
Really? I've never heard of anyone dying doing that until the early 2000s in my city.

>>215146390
Yeah I did all kinds of dumb shit as a kid being in abandoned buildings and so on and was fun. Working construction now supervising pier drilling that shit is dangerous as hell. Punching a bunch of 18 inch wide 40 feet deep holes in the ground we have to cover them in plywood or park a vehicle over it if we leave it overnight because dumbass kids might play in the construction site, fall and die.

>>215146473
>two thumbs up - Siskel and Ebert
I'll pass.

>>215146077
Stop sucking OPs dick. He’s retarded and so are you

>>215145116
last week I’d be in the restroom and my mom screaming where am I? And I say I’m using the restroom.

>>215146507
You're a good and competent man.
Yeah, we were dumbasses, weren't we? But that's kids for you. There was something so attractive about exploring abandoned buildings and deserted construction sites. Kids are also very lucky. The number of times I almost lot an eye or almost got hurt playing around, man. I shouldn't even be alive. None of us should be.

>>215146635
No Sophia Aloud

>>215145859
> ends up on this shithole
Why?

>>215146728
Why not?

>>215146891
We're only allowing one Sophia. Sofía Vergara. She's our Sexy Fort Mommy.

>>215145859
Doesn't it absolutely suck ass being born in 89? Wasn't quite old enough to experience the good times, basically turned 18 at the beginning of the downward spiral.

Eh, I was atleast able to buy a condo for cheap.

>>215147001
Absolutely not. I was born in 89, you got to experience playing with kids before the internet, when the internet did come people still had lives outside of it, then cell phones came but they wete only good for texting and calling and most people didn't use their phone until after 9pm as then it was free. I graduated in '08 and it did go to shit right afterwards, but I feel like I was born at the right time to have experiences as a kid and teenagers most kids and teenagers dont or cant do nowadays.

>>215146473
I remember being so envious of these kids. Wish I had such cool lives. Well, minus the HIV stuff.

>>215145155
And the minute he did that he self-actualized, realized he had solved his only problem and turned himself in

>>215144840

Wait a minute... that card...

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1o2c6pa/were_kids_in_the_80s_actually_allowed_to_roam/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1kx54r8/did_parents_in_the_80s_allow_kids_like_roam/

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1kd3erm/to_those_who_grew_up_in_the_80s_did_kids_really/

>>215145300
>Plan B went OTC
Of course it did
People are fucking less

>>215146077
Stop being wrong and your anus will get violated less

>>215144920
>>215144924
They also caught at least two other pedophiles that could've (were going to?) meet up with the girls that day but apparently didn't.

>>215145520
From my experience that's not how these moms end up. She'd probably have a few more kids with a few other guys.

>>215144840
Kids today roam around unsupervised, what do you mean by this? I think it's just today people realize how stupid it is to let your kids roam around unsupervised, especially in the woods. Back then camping alone in the woods was normal but that would never happen now.

>>215145896
>because it would have made certain demographic groups look bad
I spent the 80s in semi-rural Indiana, this wasn't about Negroes or Meskins, it was white kids with German and Scot and British surnames looking for maternity prom dresses. Resist the impulse to repeat other retards' bullshit.

>>215145985
We were talking about the 1980s anon, not your trailer park today

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>>215146109
He will be avenged

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>>215144840
I'm 21 years old and have never been outside after 6pm by myself. I've also never been to a store and bought something by myself either. Parent's should let their kids roam around unsupervised, otherwise they will end up as socially stunted freaks such as myself.

>>215146535
>I let anything make my decisions for me
You keep doing that

>>215144840
it was encouraged

>>215147190
>card
the actual fuck is wrong with you

Yes, I mean kids still roam around unsupervised.
Sure there always been some neurotic parents that wouldn't ever let kids out of sight but that's very small minority of parents.
I guess nowadays it's easier to keep tabs because of smart phone tracking, but dunno how many parents actually do that.

>>215147435
This is very sad anon. You're still young, you can change things. I took a vote and we all believe in you

>>215147414
The Hispanics on my street all own their brick and mortar homes and paid them off decades ago because they actually built the subdivision so I'm not sure where you're going with that zinger. We're the ones whose name doesn't end in -ez.
Tell us more about the fearful insane Christards on your block, anon. Missouri Synod?

>>215147163
The HIV thing was really for gays and needle drugs using people but those NASA rave nights at The Shelter were the real deal in the 90s

>>215147757
Ahhh
Chanclatists

>>215147435
grim

>>215147485
I see someone doesn't play videogames

>>215144840
Kids still do this it’s just not as magical anymore. You go into the local forest and it’s full of homeless people and garbage.

>>215148115
If a kid can't make their own fun with homeless people and garbage then they lack imagination

>>215148087
We are not children. We have a job and a family. No time to play games. My only escape from ordinary life is 4chin.

>>215145037
I did this and wasn't 10 in the 80's. We mostly just got mcdonalds and didn't do a whole lot. Sometimes we did shit that spooked us, like when we threw a bible into a gas station toilet, or a set a batman toy on fire in the creek.

>>215145086
>Does it have glasses?
>Does it have receding hairline?
>Does it have mustache?

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>>215144840
Yes
Television and videogames kinda sucked at the time so kids played outside a lot. And this was true for everyone, so it was easy to wander the neighborhood and find other kids to play with.
These days kids just hang out in online games instead. Even if they wanted to play outside there'd be nobody else outside to play with.

I think this factor is much bigger than parents cloistering their kids away from pedos.

>>215144840
Didn't this movie take place in the 50s

>>215148115
So pick up the garbage and throw it at the homeless people. It's called emergent gameplay.
This is easy stuff guys.

>>215145859
I was born in 85 and my childhood essentially entailed all this but phones were not a mod con thing until I was mid teenage years

>>215147001
>>215147098
I'm also an 89 kid and it was pretty peak.
We got born at the perfect time to grow up half in the old world and half in the new one.
It gives a unique perspective.

But yeah, the world went to shit by the time we were adults, and finding a job was a bitch and a half. If I was born 10 years earlier I could have gotten myself set up nice before the crash. But then I wouldn't have grown up with the internet. It would have been a weird new thing I had to get used to.

>>215148176
>>215149223
Not fun going into the forest when there’s needles everywhere and tweaked out homeless people wandering around. Guess you could “throw homeless people garbage at the homeless people” and then they pull out a knife and chase you ready to kill you

>>215144840
Stand By Me takes place in the 50s. When a movie comes out isn’t necessarily when a movie takes place, anon

>>215144840
Hello fellow Redditor

>>215144858
They kind of still do, but it's not the same with a phone-internet-GPS always in their pocket

>>215145116
>Em dash
nice AI greentext, faggot

>>215144840
Yes. However like all of King's writings, it's about the 1950s. And baby boomers were walking everywhere

>>215144888
Did they catch him?

>>215144840
yes, you could roam anywhere you wanted until you saw niggers ,then you know that neighborhood/area was not safe.

>>215144840
The film's set before the 80s, like the 50s/60s, which is basically a utopian fantasy scape compared to now. You had beautiful rural areas on your doorstep, and not a lot of nonwhites out to murder you. God, boomers really enjoyed the best lives and in their spite took it away from any generation that followed them.

>>215148948
you're making me feel self-conscious. Stop that.

>>215150491
They never go far enough to get lost or even need gps. Only a retard uses GPS to navigate their home town.

>>215144840
This was set in the 50s or 60s, and I did to a degree in the 80s.

>>215144840
We did this in the 90s too, just left a message on the home phone saying what you were doing and usually be back or at a friends house by 8pm for dinner.

>>215147239
>same people who complain about the degradation of society want to force girls to have babies that won’t be raised right and will likely become degenerates who have babies in their teens they won’t raise right
>>215146390
Well he didn’t do that again.

>>215144840
>Found a treasure trove of glass bottles dumped near a creek in a forest behind my house
>Spend almost a month going there every day after school to smash bottles against a big rock

Fun times, some chump probably found that spot years later and wondered why the fuck there were hundreds of broken bottles in the middle of the forest.

>>215144840
Yes, even the early 90's were largely ok.
I remember riding bikes with a friend across what must've been the entire state to get to these ridiculous forests full of arrowheads and massive waterfalls and shit.

>>215144840
Is that the movie that was on TV in Pokemon Gold/Silver?

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>>215145116
Delete that image!

I was younger than that when we used to go on adventures sneaking into abandoned buildings and people's property. Once alcohol, weed, tags and all that nigger crap came into play it lost its charm.

>>215151734
Red and Blue for sure.

>>215146077
kek gottem

>>215151849
Ah yes, that's correct

>>215146473
always makes me laugh seeing zoomies trying to "recreate" this in real life

>>215144840
>films women will never understand

Must have been 1999, 2000. I think I was maybe 6 or 7 the first time I went to a different friend's house after I was done playing at the friends house my parents knew I'd be at. Stayed out passed 6pm with no call, my parents flew into a panic and called every parent and neighbor in the neighborhood. Embarrassed the shit out of me, when they found me walking back home after a successful pokemon card trade where I came up on a holo Moltres, they jumped out the car threw me in and berated me
Grounded me for two weeks and made me promise I would always call and let them know every time I deviated from previously discussed plans.
Not just for this but I wish every day I had the capacity to discuss complex thoughts and feelings with adults as a kid, because the way they were acting was frankly embarrassing.
All of this took place in the same neighborhood. Never had to cross a street with a light. All within like 15 houses down of each other

My cousins my same age whom we visited often live on rural farmland on which they get to wander unsupervised all day. The suburbs are supposed to be safer than the fucking woods, that's why we moved here, no???

By the time I was 12 or 13 I had a flip phone and we traveled in packs so they relaxed and i barely remember my location and wellbeing being an issue last that

I used to ride my bike all over town all day when I was a kid in the 00's but when my mom found out that I wasn't just like, riding my bike up and down the street for literal hours at a time, she took my bike away.

>>215146411
>>215145116
>>215151765
this is exactly why we all congregate here and are the same type of people. this parenting leads to people that use 4chan

>>215144840
Dont know why so many here are saying this type shit is dead. Im 23 and I used to go all around town on bike with my friends back in the day. Hell, we even went into war with a rival group and everything

>>215151888
No one want to recreate this shit

>>215144840
cute boys

>>215144840
The movie wasn’t set in the 80s you retarded faggot. Regardless, yes, Gen X wasn’t raised like a bunch on pansies. Go out and come back when the street lights come on. That’s why we’re not a bunch of snowflakes.

>>215144840
Did you know there was a time when we used "coins" to buy things?

Have you ever used coins, Anon? Was that a rare event?

>>215148948
>Can't grow a mustache

Kek I'm safe.

>>215144840
Didn’t the movie take place in the 50’s

>>215144840
I remember some infographic a few years back showing how the area that children of different ages have to play in is steadily shrinking.

I guess in secondary school (11-16) my area of "biking to friends / going around doing random crap without a care in the world" was at least ten miles by ten miles. So a hundred square miles. (I do live in a very rural area.)

Yes, my parents would want to know where I would be and when I would be back, but that's OK. They also wanted to know who I would be with but I didn't have any psycho friends so that was never a problem.

That was quite a long time ago (long before mobile phones). I bet these days most children in their early teens don't even have ONE square mile to play in. Soon it will be the area of their bedroom, if it isn't already.

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Things used to be a lot safer back in the day

>>215149449
>>215149449
83 here. Same. I didnt have a cell until I was an adult. I lived in small town canada and Phoenix and did the same in both placed.

>>215145116
This is literally me. I'm now a 30 year old NEET and missed every developmental milestone, high schoolers have more life experience than me.

>>215153105
shit, the one on the left looks exactly like me at that age

my parents would literally yell at me to gtfo the house but i had to be back when the streetlights came on or they'd holler, literally, into the night for us to come home lol

went exploring everywhere, as other anons have mentioned, contruction sites, sewers, rooftops.. never really got in trouble only superficial stuff

bike ride everywhere no cell phones flat tires were the worst

rainy days and family treats were blockbuster video and pizza hutt we even rented consoles before deciding on which one to buy but lol we got them all anyway

>>215144858
You're conflating black people with children again.

>>215144840
Yeah, the consequence of kids no longer being required to work or help out their parents all day long, and parents being at work all day, so kids would be left completely unsupervised after a certain age.

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>>215145116
Also 33, my mother supervised the shit out of me, I was barely allowed to go anywhere and kids from school quickly learned to leave me alone, so it was vidya and books for me. I turned out alright, but that lack of freedom in my childhood informs my whole life, making me obsessiviely independent and unwilling to accept any help or advice

>>215153976
My dad used to tell stories of a similar upbringing, even down to a Bridge to Terebithia moment where the kid next door drowned in the lake where they used to hang out at in the woods (never go swimming alone bros).

>>215144961
This

>>215144858
This anon is lying. My mother told me a fucking hilarious story recently where some kids were out on their bikes, one of them suffers a non-injury falling off but he’s crying real loud so neighbors come out…

Story ends with the parents of all 3 kids getting citations.

>>215144840
I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s and was still allowed to wander around. Walked to and from school most days. I just couldn't stay at my gfs house past midnight.

>>215144840
>OP's Pic
>Friends walking and talking to each other

>Modern Day
>Friends sitting down and looking at their phones

>>215153976
>>215154367


i'll add some more just 'cause.. so summers were all slip and slides and super soakers and water balloons and jumping off roofs into friend's pools (when we could get away with it)

nights, if would could get enough of us, we'd play manhunt, sort of a tag/hide and sneek hybrid. we played survivor shot (basically laser tag) too. otherwise just making crummy ramps and riding our skateboards/bikes over them (or yes roller skates)

gather at the ditch to smoke cigarettes and swing on ropes

and the mall. the mall! i feel so bad for people who didn't get to experience it at its peak. showing up with your friends and feeling super popular because you randomly encounter a group of your other friends! and then x-men or tmnt at the arcade

playing the beginning of castlevania on the nes and dying constantly and not caring about progression playing castlevania 2 and not knowing wtf to do and then your pal bought a STRATEGY GUIDE and ho-le-shit

>>215144840
Gen X, bitch, if we weren't abandoned to adventures we ran away to find them ourselves.

>>215144991
sup Rick

>>215144840
You went out 'til it got dark or it was dinner time.

>>215145116
Don't blame them for me after I ack please

>>215144858
I wouldn’t say roam like the kids in op but kids in my neighborhood do ride their bike anywhere and everywhere and go as they please.

>>215144840
Op. The movie takes place in 1959, not the 80s.

The 80s is when parents became more strict with kids going outside because of all the missing children killed and raped from pedos.

>80s
all the events happened during King's teen years, eg in the 1950s. Also, Doug (the cartoon) is also supposed to be in the same time period, with his sister being an original beatnik and Skeeter an original (not 1980s shitty revival) greaser

>>215145099
>British parents don't give a fuck where their 8-year-old daughter is
Because Paki rape gangs aren't prosecuted there anyway

>>215154506
...And the home of the brave!

>>215152464
Because this place is Reddit where everything is terrible and the world is ending (ITS DIFFERENT THIS TIME TWO MORE WEEKS SOCIETY IS DONE) just with an extreme right view instead of extreme left. I mean that people with terminally online opinions are criticizing kids supposedly not roaming outside is delicious ironing.

>>215145865
>>215146092
>>215150686
Rent free

5yo kids were roaming around in the 80s.

>>215144840
Looks like a buffet for Ukraine supporters. Four young boys.

>>215144840

Sure. The 80´s were a time of high adventure.

>>215156133
It’s actually not free at all. We pay for your section 8 housing with our taxes.

>>215152464
A couple gen aplha kids rode by me on scooters and yelled chicken jockey. It was pretty funny.

>>215152685
Gen x is gay as fuck they are just on the dl

>>215153252
the funny part is that at the time of the murder everyone thought thompson was the sick one because he came off as the tough kid of the duo, but venables ended up being in and out of prison while thompson never re-offended

>>215144840
Yes. But also that's the 50's where it would be considered odd if you didn't roam around unsupervised (and get a job and have kids and buy your first house in your early 20s)

>>215154506
The US is a fucking joke.

>>215157787
Rent free

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>>215145135
Eddy talking about killing another serial killer locked up with him cause he was an annoying insufferable little cunt to everyone locked up at that mental hospital.

>>215144840
That's the 50's, not the 80's.

>>215144840
We spent all our time outside by the age of about 4.

>>215144961
perhaps not but the 70s-80s were an era of high crime rates and super degeneracy with a lot of active serial killers so you can understand why they did think so

It was a different time, back then if you haven't been molested by age 12 you were considered a loser.

>>215147700
>The HIV thing was really for gays and needle drugs using people
it was entirely gays, the IV drug users who got AIDS also happened to be gay

>>215145654
The legendary porn stash in the woods was a important aspect of boyhood before the internet

>>215158643
i heard it said like 1/3rd of Gen X was molested

I know hitchhiking went hand in hand with the large number of serial killers but I can't believe there was a time when you'd just bum your way cross country

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In the 90s they did go overboard with PSAs telling you to not talk to strangers or thumb rides because of the crime excesses of the preceding 25 years.

>>215144840
>Were kids in the 80s actually allowed to roam around unsupervised
Yup did it all the time, never saw anyone with skin darker than a suntan either.

>>215144933
Yeah you'd think that having the phone would facilitate kids roaming even further away from home and more often than we even did.
Video games really sucked the vitality out of men and I'm tired of hearing about them from guys who say it's all they want to do. Useless fucking terrible "hobby" (it's not) and I'm tired of pretending it's not!

>>215149197
>Television and videogames kinda sucked at the time so kids played outside a lot

Poor Adam Walsh died because of shitty 80s video games. RIP buddy.

>>215158758
it was a dangerous era. today bikers are just harmless boomer dentists but back then if you were out somewhere and saw a biker gang you turned around and got as far away from there as you could.

>>215158786
Unofficial segregation was still widely practiced, if a black guy was caught walking around a white neighborhood they'd arrest him for vagrancy or loitering.

>>215145520
Teen girls actually can't get pregnant that easily, fertility isn't that high yet. It gradually increases from puberty until peaking around 23.

>>215145903
I saw a collection of death certificates from the 50s once and it satisfied me that death from stupidity has always been a thing.

>>215148115
>Kids still do this it’s just not as magical anymore. You go into the local forest and it’s full of homeless people and garbage.
that sounds exactly like the 70s-80s though possibly even worse then

>>215144858
Only in civilized countries.

>>215158887
No there really just wasn't any in our area. I never even saw a black person for real until I got to high school, and there was maybe 3.

>>215145780
>I do remember more than a few creepy adults who we shouldn't have been around and dangerous situation
Some had bad luck and died because they got a ride with the wrong person. RIP Cary Medlin. Gone too soon.

>>215144840
Kids still do this. They all have e-scooters now and go wherever they want until dark

>>215158810
wut

>>215158524
It's the 80s grafted onto the 50s.

contrary to libshit propaganda AIDS was almost entirely a gay disease except for some poor sods like Ryan White who got a blood transfusion from before it was screened and gays were banned from donating blood

I mean the cars sucked too, it was the malaise era and they were hunks of scrap that barely ran. The car I was brought home from the hospital in (thereby making it the first I ever rode in) was an 83 Escort which was an utter turd.

>>215144840
ah but you'd miss back when you could make a cable descrambler box and unlock the Playboy Channel before they used encrypted pay channels

>>215145654
>we never found a body but
If you lived in NYC in the 80s and you didn't find any dead bodies anywhere it would be more weird

>>215152788
I could but I've always been clean shaven.

>>215145086
oh actually Gacy was procuring male sex slaves for state Democrat politicians, he was not a lone wolf

>>215158758
Crime was so high because of soft as fuck judicial practices. After WW2 the justice systems in Western cunts got really soft because everyone came to associate executions and mass imprisonment with totalitarian governments.

>>215157787
We don’t say citations here.

>>215158612
Statistically speaking, there has never been a time in recorded history when strangers on the street were more dangerous than family and friends.

>>215145180
>parents let 12yo daughter have a sleepover at male schoolmate's, with the logic that "they're too old to play doctor, and too young to do anything more serious"
In the 70s that was a bad bet. If you were still a virgin at 12 in that era you did something wrong.

>>215144840
No wonder kids don't go outside anymore when there's cameras fucking everywhere.

>>215147435
don't get boys circumcised either it breaks something in their brain

>>215153105
Thompson turned out a faggot, and Venables a pedo(faggot).

>>215153252
you were a cute boy

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>you were a cute boy

>>215144840
>Were kids in the 80s actually allowed to roam around unsupervised, or is that just in movies?

>Shows screenshot of "Stand By Me"... a movie that took place in the 1950s.

...but yea, back in the 80s kid played until the street lights went on, without parents.

>>215144840
It was a thing up until the late 90s

By the 2000s everyone stuck back home or someone else's home since they had intrawebs and vidya

t. late Gen X boomer

>>215144840
>Were kids in the 80s actually allowed to roam around unsupervised, or is that just in movies?

Back then you had a high trust society that children could operate on their own without the fear of anything bad happening to them

Now you have to worry the second they walk out the door because all of the stupid shit that goes on in the world now and could be raped and killed, or killed and raped, by cyborgs programmed by trannies to groom and sodomized them as seen in example below....

https://youtu.be/DZ5LJZ7kwVE?si=EOVbHSJ0-fCMqgAA

!!!FACT!!!

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>>215145086
>They really had it easy, huh?

It was a better time.....

https://youtu.be/igmBf1Az710?si=9iRR-AdYm2pLvaD-

!!!FACT!!!