So, ten years old is the new minimum age for walking alone, is it?

What utter nonsense.

Not many decades ago I walked to school alone, one city block away, at age five (for kindergarten) and age six (for grade one) and all grades beyond. 

And no, that was not parental neglect, indeed in that department I was the fortunate recipient of the most watchful and diligent of parental eyes. But the thing is, those adult eyes back then could see things in PERSPECTIVE.

These new rules of 2017 are literally killing people. 

Look, sure, you can tell me all about how, when kids walked to school alone like I described decades ago, for one kid in a million they would be abducted and never seen again.

But that's where perspective comes in. The year 2017 approach, of driving kids everywhere inside cars by overprotective parents, it is contributing to the obesity epidemic, and those kids' eventual high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attacks. 

WAY more lethal, WAY more years of life lost.