Kidnapping by strangers, in particular, is vanishingly rare, and without that danger why in the world would you need to be 10 years old to play in your own front yard?
From talking to other parents, it seems like often they also have no sense of their kid’s responsibility-when-unmonitored, because they’ve never tested it, and so aren’t sure their nine-year-old wouldn’t run in front of a car.
From talking to other parents, it seems like often they also have no sense of their kid’s responsibility-when-unmonitored, because they’ve never tested it, and so aren’t sure their nine-year-old wouldn’t run in front of a car.