Sadly, while all this safety stuff may have saved lives it also seemed to lead to the overall collapse of "the neighborhood".
People don't trust anyone anymore. If a kid goes to another kid's house the parent has to know exactly where they are going to be. We used to use the neighborhood as our playground. We could be about anywhere, just 90 percent of the time NOT in people's homes but outdoors playing games.
These days you can't trust that when your child walks down the street and around the corner that they are still being looked after by your neighbors as well. Everybody knew where you were and what you were doing when I was a kid. I know, because if I did anything wrong, my Mom knew about it right before she would go make the dreaded "full name" call out and the ear spliting whistle. After that call, I had about 30 seconds to get home.