cool, so why exactly are people saying that this cant happen anymore and parents need to give screens to their kids in order to have enough time to work? Kids dont roam anymore becasue they have screens, not the other way around.
The dual-income household expectation and collapsing middle-class (lost share of productivity) would be the most to blame from my perspective... there's also a major daycare shortage because of this, the lifestyle changed and surrounding factors haven't caught up. There are kids regularly staying at after school programs until 6pm because parents are working and no one wants kids wandering around on their own, even in teen years. My local mall has banned kids under 18 unsupervised as yet another example.