Mall Rats Face Uncertain Future as More Shopping Centers Limit Unaccompanied Tweens and Teens
The shopping centers seem to want to avoid rowdy or shoplifting children and believe the best way is just to ban everyone of a certain age.
Children need some unsupervised time. Sure, it depends on their age, interests, and neighborhood, but I am pretty constantly urging nervous parents to get a grip and let their children walk to school, play outside, and go to the store.
Yet in truth, it is not only anxiety thwarting parents. There are other forces arrayed against them: the car-centric design of many modern suburbs, for one. And now an increasing unwillingness to tolerate unaccompanied tweens and teens in malls and other public gathering places.
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