I recently read an article - published on The Atlantic - titled ‘The Overprotected kid’ as well as the author's intriguing argument and ideas on child safety. As I’m sure all of you can agree that from the moment that you first set eyes on your children, you vow to yourself that you would protect them at all costs. They mean the world to us Hannah Rosin she argues that this obsession with safety has ‘stripped childhood of independence, risk taking and discovery’.

In her article, Hannah Rosin retorts back to how ‘childhood norms’ were like in the 70s, to highlight the how drastically parenting methods have changed over the course of 40 years. She notes that her daughter had only been unsupervised for ‘10 minutes in 10 years’ of her life, …show more content…
The world has not become more ‘dangerous’, it is just merely perceived that way. In fact, if anything the crime rates, have been flat or declining in recent decades. The main difference between now and the 70s is that we have access to things like the media, the internet and news. Crime cases, involving children-related matters, have not necessarily increased its just that people are becoming more aware of it, even if it’s not happening in their area.

Rosin implies that this obsession with the need to keep our children safe has only increased due to the changing society and introduction of the media into the public, allowing us to be more aware of the crime around the world. However what she fails to address is with this evolution of culture, there are new threats that will continue to pose risk to the safety of our children. The Internet being a main one - where instead of fearing a literal playground but a playground for paedophiles.

In the technological advancing day and age, it seems rare