@Frazzledmummy123
as opposed to living in such a way that if suddenly the car went off the road or God forbid, something happened that you couldn't drive, you would be isolated and wee Billy would have to miss his clubs, etc. How independent eh! 🙄 . A set of wheels doesn't dictate if my kids attend their clubs and events..
Such a dumb, narrow-minded post. My kids primary school was 10 minutes walk away, and their secondary school was a 20 minute walk away. But many of their extra curricular activities; dance and drama and music, and singing lessons, various sports, (MMA, swimming, fencing, basketball etc,) and venues that their theatre club had their shows in, were all over the place, all over the town, and sometimes in another town.
I don't believe for a SECOND that anyone with children can give them a good, decent, full childhood right up to (and including) the university years WITHOUT A CAR. There's no way that every single activity or hobby or sport or pastime, that they are involved in (for the 13-14 years of school and college life,) is within 10 minutes walk or a short 10-15 minute jaunt on the bus.
I can only surmise that your child(ren) have very limited lives with very few things going on in them. That must be the case, because regarding what a pp said, the only children I ever knew who had parents without a car, had very dull and mundane existences, did fuck-all outside of school, and went on to do very little with their lives, because of the lack of opportunities when they were children, because the parents could rarely get to them anything, because they couldn't drive.
When my DC went to college, it was 10-12 minute drive or AN HOUR AND A HALF on the bus. I was able to take them AND fetch them back as I worked part time flexible hours, and so I did. Why the fuck would I make them get public transport and waste 3 hours of their day EVERY WEEKDAY, when it's 25 minutes by car? Because it's character building? Because they will then know how to use the bus??? 
LMFAO, do me a favour. No fucking WAY would anyone with a scrap of common sense NOT drive the kids when it's only 25 minutes round trip, to save them 3 hours on the bus!
And the very idea that if children are driven about (more than they get public transport,) means they won't know how to use public transport, is pathetic and farcical. Several posters here are just chatting shit and coming out with utter nonsense to try and prove themselves 'right.' (They're not right btw!) What's more, as a pp said, we did all used to go to places by public transport sometimes, often to cities, for concerts, and day trips, (where it was easier and faster by train or bus...) Quite often it is not faster by public transport though , as I and @Windbeneathmybingowings and some others have stated.
As I said, I would drive my kids about a lot (and so would DH,) and SHOCKER, they knew how to use the buses and trains on their own when they were 15/16 and started going out a lot on their own or with mates. They can even go on holiday abroad now and use a plane all by themselves, and even BOOK the trips too. I know right! And after being driven around quite a bit through childhood too! SHOCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
And LOL at you saying 'oooooh people without a car are just so STUCK when said car breaks downs!!!' As if public transport is SO reliable!!! The trains in the UK are some of the most unreliable in the world. And who wants to wait for buses that go once an hour, get you there too late, or too early, and where you get soaked in the rain waiting for them? When you could be in a lovely warm car, and there in much less time?