A new survey of nearly 24,000 American parents found that at age 12, one in five children still aren’t allowed to leave the house without an adult. Only two percent can go anywhere on their own. At 17—the age you can enlist in the US military with parental consent—8 percent still can’t leave the house unsupervised.
I read those numbers...
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