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OPINION:Thanks to irrational fears about strangers and accidents, we've created an epidemic of obese, scared children, writes Victoria White 

I LET MY nine-year-old get the bus home from school on his own this year. Am I Ireland's worst Mammy? Lenore Skenazy was called "America's worst Mom" across the US national airwaves when she let her nine-year-old ride the subway on his own in New York this year.