Here is the real question: Where does this mass anxiety come from? Kyle Stanford, a social scientist at University of California, Irvine, asked himself exactly this question a couple of years ago. How did we come from childhoods in which we were granted such freedom to raise our children with such deep anxiety, even though the world is getting safer and safer all the time?

For the full story, please visit http://www.macleans.ca/society/we-need-to-stop-worrying-and-just-let-our-kids-play/.

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