The difficulties of rising to the challenge are compounded by the greater privatisation of life and the reluctance - for many reasons - of adults to engage in any way with children and young people they do not know, and vice versa. Indeed, at a Fabian Society conference earlier this year, on "The Way We Live Now", there was unanimity in the session on The Politics of Childhood that it was virtually impossible for adults who were strangers to even nod their heads in the direction of children for fear of being branded a threat. One participant, a youth worker, described being admonished by a woman, who turned out to be a school teacher, when he pulled his car up to look at a map. They didn't like strange men parking near the school gates.
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