Lenore Skenazy is a New York journalist. When she wrote about how she had left her nine-year-old son in central New York and let him take the subway home alone, she caused a(n) 1media storm.Her son，lzzy，whose2the expedition (出行) had been, was happy with the experience. He arrived home safely, 3about his independence. He had been begging for weeks to be4out on his own and to travel unsupervised (无人监督的). Ms Skenazy gave Izzy a subway map, twenty dollars and some5in case he needed to make a phone call. But Ms Skenazy's actions landed her in a huge6. Although many came out to7her, she was labeled "America's worst mom" by others. "My son had simply done what most people my age had done8when they were his age: gone somewhere on his own, without a security detail," she wrote9. "The problem with this dangerous idea is that overprotectiveness is a 10in itself. A child who thinks he can't do anything11eventually can't. "
So, are we living in a risk-averse (风险规避的) culture where we limit our children＇s ability to 12danger by never allowing them to take reasonable13? Does Western society give its children too much14? Or did Ms Skenazy's actions15her son in unnecessary danger? What do you think?
