Old 11-10-13, 10:07 PM
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I've seen some articles saying that what parents are most trying to protect against, abduction/harm by strangers, are actually not any more common today than 50 years ago -- just the 24 hour news cycle means almost every child abduction is national news. So, I think parents are more protective, but have at least an excuse for being more sensitive.

Here's one of the articles I read a while back. Interesting, regarding the risk of unsupervised neighborhood play (page 3) - basically MUCH safer than playing football, riding horses, or (especially) riding in cars: http://missingchild.files.wordpress....-childhood.pdf
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