Free-Range Children

[Lorizael]

Here's why: because the parent abducted the child. Virtually all kidnappings (that are not false alarms) are of the divorced-parent-wants-kid-back variety.

Indeed. But we're specifically talking about abductions committed by strangers on the street. And even in cases where a parent is doing the abducting, the other parent will still report it.

[Alexander's Horse]

These are the school cases we had, so common a museum has one. At the bus stop the kids would line them up to keep their place.



Mine was so big when I was 5 I could hop inside it. In fact a common trick with an annoying kinder kid was to stuff them inside their own school bag and lock it up.

As I say, it's not "we all survived", but it's a wonder we survived. But most of us did, with a very rich childhood and many life skills kids just don't have today.

[Alexander's Horse]

oh that didn't work very well