It’s a parental choice.
I don’t have a problem with kid-leashes. Children *are* your responsibility until they’re 18 in most jurisdictions. By law, they’re infants until they’re 18.
Any freedom they get is because someone _allows_ them to have it.
Personally? I think there’s too many restrictions in the wrong areas and too few in the right areas. But as much as I wish, I can’t change civilization. [tried it in my late teens / early 20s in the early Internet. I thought I made changes. But… nope, just inspired people to think they could make changes and they went off and tried and, well, like a lot of tilting at windmills, effectively didn’t change much. Oh well. I got to help on their declaration on the rights of the child (UNICEF).. early 90s internet was smaller.. .but THAT didn’t really change a damn thing either. US still hasn’t adopted it. Oh well. Meh. Old rant, nothing changes. GenZ will fix things later.