The community around them could care less.
The reason for this is that the entire culture has been warped by the police patrol/nanny state mentality. The sooner we change that, the sooner our culture will begin to heal itself.
PS Imagine a boy who was raised by a hypochondriacal and over protective mother who insisted that he wear a network of body braces from the time he was three. Now he's ten years old and a doctor examined him and told the mother that there was never anything wrong with him and she should remove the braces right away so he can learn to do all the normal things a boy is normally capable of doing. You folks are that mother, the boy is our culture, the network of braces is the police patrol/nanny state mentality, and I'm that doctor in this debate.