Responsibility & Subway Cars

I was watching the Today Show this morning. There was a feature on about a woman who was in the news because she gave her son - who was 9 at the time, the freedom to ride the New York City subway alone. This woman was receiving hate mail etc. People were trying to get the state to step in and take her son.

Now, I can't say that I would allow my children to ride the subway alone. Hell, I wouldn't even ride the subway alone. However, this family lives in New York. This boy grew up in that environment. He is a mature kid. I think that the mom looked at this in a very diplomatic way.

Her argument was that New York is one of the safest cities for kids. It is. Studies have shown that. She brought up a valid point in that we are living in fear of the things that are in the media. We only hear about the bad stuff. We don't hear about the millions of people that ride the subways each day without incident. We hear about the one bad thing that happens. She stated that people are living in fear and that she is being chastized because she chooses to not live that way. Bravo to you lady. I wholeheartedly agree with her on this fact. We are a scared nation. It sucks. On so many levels.