This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, March 14, 2014. I'm Caleb Brown.

What's happened since the days when we used to let our children roam free to discover the world on their own own without fear that they would be snatched or poisoned or suffer some other awful fate.

Lenorskanesia is founder of free-range kids and host of the TV series World's Worst Mom, she says it may surprise people

learn that the world has gotten much safer. When I was a kid I lived in

rural Missouri, I rode my bike everywhere, my diet was largely sugar, I was...

And whole milk.

I was what was called a latchkey kid and remember those. I got home from school before my dad did and so I was alone so I would grab a bunch of potato chips or whatever.

Oreos for me, but okay.

That wasn't that long ago, and I'm not perfect,

but I feel like a lot has changed.

What's changed?

Well, let me start with what hasn't changed that people all think has changed. What's changed? Well let me start with what hasn't changed that people

all think has changed because whenever anybody meets me they tell me their

happy story like that but then they usually go on but now times have changed. You know I'd love my kids to have that kind of but now times have changed.

You know, I'd love my kids to have that kind of childhood, but times have changed.

And I said, how do you think?

And they said, well, there's just so many crazies, there's so many perverts, crime is up,

and I said, okay, would you please?

I'm not going to tell you this.

Just go Google FBI FBI, and let's look at some crimes.

You go look because you won't trust me.

Crime is down to the level it was before color television.

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