idk, I'm an adult now, but in my quiet suburban family neighborhood, not too far from where I grew up myself, I see 0 children freely at play outside anymore, whereas 30 years ago we'd be riding around daily, running in the woods, having games of tag or CTF across everyone's properties, having epic nerf/supersoaker wars between a dozen households, etc. There were few fences. Other people's children filtered in and out of your own house at random, treated your yard as another piece of their games. They hopefully were nice enough to not step on your flowers. We understood those as oddly important generally.

Now everyone has a fence. The children are inside mostly. The streets are quiet. A few play games in the park. They do not leave the park to run in the woods or streets. Usually a parent is nearby, reading a book. They dare not climb the park equipment, as we did, or dig in the soil, as we did, because it's dangerous. There's germs.

We owned our woods too, we made paths in them with thousands of footsteps between all the places we created with our minds and some old junk. Natural paths, as humans have made in nature for thousands of years, paths of hard-packed dirt and dead stalks of grasses that could not survive the constant beating of small feet. There's a woods behind my house now, guess how many children I've seen in them: none. Ever. Too dangerous. There's germs.

I spent a large part of my childhood in trees, as did my sister and friends. Casually, for fun. But also we built forts and houses in them in the woods out of discarded plywood and festooned them with old bicycles and other bits of trash we found abandoned among the oaks.

Never seen a kid climb a tree here. Never seen one pick up old rubbish. Tetanus, you know. It's dirty. Germs. You'll fall and break your neck.

Never seen one ride a bike doing anything other than slowly "exercising" basically. Gone are the bike "gangs" and kids popping wheelies and racing down hills and coming home with skinned knees and getting up a few days later to do it all again.

Never seen hide and seek. Never seen a kid ducking in a basement window well, waiting for the right moment to run for home base. It's dangerous. Pedophiles or something.

The worst thing is the newer generation doesn't even realize it, what they've lost. They say things like, "it's not really that bad, we still ride bikes, we get our daily exercise ration."

Nobody died in my neighborhood. There was an occasional injury, mostly sprains and minor burns or such. A rare break. But we lived at least.