12:52PM GMT 18 Jan 2013
Children being raised in 'captivity' due to health and safety paranoia
"Children are being raised in captivity because of growing “paranoia” about health and safety, a former Government adviser has warned."
"The comments – in a speech to the North of England Education Conference in Sheffield – come amid fears that growing exposure on technology and irrational fear over “stranger danger” is stopping children enjoying outdoor play."
"But Prof Byron, a child psychologist and author, who carried out a Government review into the effect of video games and the internet on young people, said parental concerns had reached “insane” levels"
"Today's children are "hugely, hugely restricted", she told delegates."
"She said: “There are no more predators on the streets, no more paedophiles, then when I was growing up in the 1970s.”"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9811008/Children-being-raised-in-captivity-due-to-health-and-safety-paranoia.html
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