As a Canadian I hate it too.

Once I was at my friend’s house, and her parents were gone for like three days. We were 9, and it was totally normal for kids that young to just stay alone. One day this man who had been tutoring her in math at some learning center called, which was weird because he had no reason to call as school had just let out and she was done for the summer, and he had never called her before. Well, he had called because he wanted to force her to talk dirty to him while he pulled his horn. She was a rare person with two phone lines, so she called the police on the other line while I made up things to say to him to keep him on the line and record what he said. I was pretty funny in what I came up with to say, pretty snarky. The police arrested him on this basis. When her parents came back and she told them, they were angry at her for making trouble for the teacher and involving them in a court case.

That’s what 80s parents were like.

I don’t agree. Many young girls got molested because we were just left to our own devices outside for hours and hours.

Oh well the guys in my high school did.

We also were able to drive and own cars at 16, which isn’t a thing in Canada anymore, and if you pissed off your parents they would throw you out even if you were 15. Parenting was much more lax back then.

Not even smoking cigarettes. Just being brought up by your parents who smoked every time they blinked.