Declining childhood independence over the years (%):

Driven less by internet brainrot, and more by media “stranger danger” as well as loss of wild spaces near homes for kids to roam and explore unaccompanied by an adult

The whole article is worth a read

Relevant bits to fuckcars:

Adult employment patterns and lifestyle changes have also been slowly trending toward car-dependency, which means that kids often end up living far away from their friends. If children want people to play with, the most efficient solution is for their parents to drive them to an organized sport or other structured activity.

In the Play England survey, though, parents were most afraid that their kids would get hit by a car. Sadly, this isn’t an unreasonable fear. All the forests are covered in concrete. What would we make of a city-bound parent who let their toddler roam the streets without an adult nearby?