Why do some parents not care

I don't know why there are parents that don't care, but I've seen that this is a problem in our neighborhood. On our street there are a total of 9 children all aged 10 and under. My daughter is supposed to be in from playing at 7:00 on school nights and 8:00 on non-school nights. This seems to work out well for her and we are still able to have time to spend as a family. The other night I went to grab some fast food for dinner at about 8:30, and two of the kids were still outside playing, with no adult out there with them, it was already getting dark at the time. This was a 7 year old girl and a 4 year old boy. Sometimes I just want to strangle their parents for not paying more attention to them. Luckily, we live on a court, so the chance of the children being run over by a car or something is not as high of a risk as it could be other places, but it doesn't matter where you are, there are bad people everywhere.

Hello jugsjugs. It is careless of the parents who do not make sure that their children are back home after dark, let alone at midnight. What if something unfortunate happens to them? It is time for them to take good care of their children for their safety. Thank you for the discussion, friend.

I don't see that in my neighborhood now but when I lived in New York I saw that alot. I would see young kids walking by or just hanging outside and I would say where are the parents? How do they allow this? I seriously think its parents not caring. What else could it be. If a parent cared the kids would be tucked in their beds fast asleep. You are totally right if the child was to be hit by a car they would never take the blame and say we are bad parents the kids should have been in the house. They would for sure blame the driver of the car. I think from the stories in the papers and on TV alot of parents are not doing right by their kids. I feel its a form of abuse for a child to be allowed outside at midnight.

my son is 14 and he's always home by 9:30 in the holidays or weekends and 8:00 on school nights,he always keeps his phone on him and i call him at least twice when he's out to find out where he is or what he's up to,you obviously don't know where they are 24 7 coz they're kids,but you can still teach them right from wrong and how to act when they are out on their own,if my son was out at midnight i would throttle him,and if he was staying at a mates and went out at that time of night i'd throttle the parents for letting my son out so late,regardless of what their kids are allowed to do

I've seen this happen on many occasions, where parents leave their children outside all hours of the night. Hubby and I used to take late night walks when we lived back at home with our parents and we'd see really young children (ages 5 - 8 probably) playing outside on the sidewalk and everything. Granted, our neighborhood wasn't particularly known for being dangerous, but there was still a good amount of through traffic and we still have our share of convicted rapists and child abductors and such things. We don't have any children yet ourselves, but we've agreed that our children have a curfew, especially when there's no one out there watching them. I know that my mother used to make me come inside at sun down before it even got dark out because she wasn't taking any chances.

Hello dear, Thats too bad...as a mother i never let my kids still on the road,or outside home when it is getting dark. Soon as it gets dark,i make sure that my kids were inside home already. And i am also thankful that my kids doesn't had the habit of staying late or playing outside home. They are contented watching movies from cable or,watching/reviewing old cartoon movies.Playing games from ps3,or computers after doing their homeworks...or listening to musics(my two teeners) I don't have so much worries with my kids staying late outside and i hope they will keep this attitude.