How Dystopian Futures Get To Be Dystopian

(Image from an article in:  The Free Republic)

Last week there appeared to be a nation-wide pandemic of child neglect.  Parents have been arrested for the following "heinous crimes" against children:  Having them walk home from school, leaving them to play in a park (armed with a cellphone, no less) and leaving pre-teens alone in a car.

Mark Steyn muses on the effect the nationalization of childhood has on the future.

Most of the comments in articles on such stories open with some variation of:  When I was a kid, I did...

Just how dangerous was life back then?

Let's take a light-hearted look at eight reasons children of the 70s should be dead. 

My favorite is the last line on Reason #6...

(Image from:  Lord of the Flies)