We are absolutely the weirdos for letting Child go up and down the hallways in the building to visit her friends, of the same cohort, also in the building.

I still think it's weird that that's considered weird. It's a building! A contained space! It's not the other side of a city! I didn't have the world's most cavalier parents and I walked all sorts of places by myself as a child, even just around the block for fun. My mother had a whistle call for when she took me and my brother to parks or beaches and we were out of sight but not earshot. I still think of that as normal.

It always strikes me darkly ironic. I couldn't convince social services to protect me, and my kid can't walk to the JCC two blocks over.

It's nice to know in which wrong direction the values of your generation are pointed.