We are rearing our children in captivity -- their habitat shrinking almost daily. In 1970 the average nine-year-old girl would have been free to wander 840 meters from her front door. In 1997 it was 280 metres. Now the limit appears to have come down to the front doorstep.
-- Mark Easton, Home editor, BBC News, 4 June 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6720661.stm
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