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Yes, when they're young, no problem. The early years have more to do with safety and teaching than with friendship. Once they hit 12-14 or whatever's appropriate for each child I'd say it's time to make the leash voluntary and based on trust. Some children will feel more secure. Others won't want to touch it.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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