Yeah I have noticed that. I remember when I was young trick or treating happened when it was dark, we'd stay out til 9 or so, and once we weren't little anymore our parents weren't with us, and if a house didn't participate the whole neighborhood was like, what's their problem? Now even in my old neighborhood I grew up in (full of young families), there is literally a curfew of when it gets dark and many people don't even participate. Some parents went on a mission recently to stop Halloween because they said it was too scary and would traumatize their poor children (bunch of garbage, kids love that stuff and if they don't they don't have to do it). At my middle school recently I found out they made it against the rules to dress up for Halloween and decided they needed to make a new holiday the same day called "ethnic diversity day" 8). It's sad, I had SO MUCH FUN on Halloween as a kid. I remember at some point when I was still young there was a report of some sick motherfucker putting razor blades in candy somewhere, but it didn't stop everyone from still doing it.