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Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Styles (Other) Is it responsible for a parent to let a 12-year-old child ride the NYC subway alone?

I grew up in New York and it was perfectly acceptable to ride the subway at 12. I was 12 in 1992, if anything a more dangerous time in the city and the subway than today. In those not-so-long-ago days, many young New Yorkers took the subway to high school everyday from the age of 14 - not hopping on for a stop or two so they could avoid walking in the snow, but traversing the city. I went to Stuyvesant High School, in downtown Manhattan, and literally 95% of the students took some combination of ferry, subways and buses to arrive at school. We didn't grow up afraid of our world and the peo...

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