I think 'acting suspicously' will be interpreted to mena not with their SO, not a parent, not jogging: In the UK, parents are not allowed to take photos of their own children at school events for fear of pedophiles. A guy I know deliberately limits contact with his nephews for fear of being labeled a pedophile. Another guy was near a park, some kids kicked a football near him, he picked it up, kicked it back at them and said 'hi, kids,' and they started shouting 'pedo, pedo.' I trained to work with children, and the first and most emphasised piece of advice was never to physically come in contact with them - not even if they have an accident, not even in an emergency (this even though we got background checks, we were never left alone with the kids, etc). Another person I know (foreign female) once she saw a child on the street, without an umbrella or raincoat, getting soaked in the heavy rain, and she shared her umbrella - the child was amazed a perfect stranger would offer help.
Yet apart from from this pedophile hysteria, once children are old enough to open the fridge on their own, they're usually just ignored by their parents and are in effect raised by schools and their peers (why these parents had kids in the first place is beyond me). This in a society where the adults moan about how awful children, and especially teenagers, are (they're not that bad in my experience - but in any case, if they really are that bad, doesn't the generation supposed to raise them bear some responsibility?). Unlike in other societies, teenagers are only ever mentioned in the news as either victims or perpetrators of crime. On a documentary on tv, they showed various exceptionally overprotected kids - tellingly, one of them said she was afraid of teenagers, even though she had not actually had any bad experiences with them, and could give no concrete reasons for this fear. Also, while these kids' parents were all paranoid about pedophiles, and some of them were paranoid about their physical safety, not even one of them seemed to even think about their emotional well-being, let alone the impact of this over-protectiveness and paranoia.
On a study about children's happiness, it turned out British kids are just about the most unhappy in the entire developed world, well behind less developed countries like Poland and Italy. I wasn't surprised.
I wouldn't want to raise a family here, and would rather take my chances in my violent Third World country.
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