Trick-or-Treating Isn’t What It Used to Be
Instead of going door-to-door on Halloween night, many parents are taking their kids elsewhere to get candy.
Nostalgia is a fun-house mirror, so any claims that “back in my day, we went trick-or-treating until midnight with no parental supervision,” while kids these days are forced to make do with half an hour of highly supervised trick-or-treating before sunset, are surely a distortion.
Still, it seems like the tradition of going door-to-door demanding candy is not quite what it used to be for many U.S. families. Over the past couple of years, as Halloween has come and gone, low turnout in their neighborhoods has to annually on if is . across the country have anecdotal of in .
