It wasn't a legal comment, more how comparatively children are given less freedoms than say a generation or two before.
With this, I beleive there are some negatives, certainly based on my own experience on how children grow socially.
For me, it seems quite old to only be offered friendship...
I agree in part but you must admit that sometimes youngsters must feel a little stifled, just by say well meaning yet over protective parents and perhaps even society as a whole, I cannot be sure of the current threshold these days where children might play, loiter, laugh, good forbid get into...
Was a bit disarmed the other month when I accepted a friend request from a woman, I knew her and she is fine no problems, but I saw her a day or two lately for her to tell me' 'Hi, sorry I havent got back to your friend request I will accept you dont worry', I was mortified ....