I don\'t have any children but i have 4 little cousins that are my heart. I\'ll worry once a kid dies in CT. I am more concerned a little girl was murdered in West Haven. Cause guess what, a freak is more likely to kill your child than this disease.
See this is also a creation of the media.
You would think that in this day and age it is sooo unsafe for kids etc. They always talk about kidnapping, child murder, abductions etc etc. What they NEVER tell you is that ALL of that stuff has been on the decline for years.
We (im 35) were WAY more statistically at risk when we were kids compared to today. The difference is the media. When a kid in east bum fuck was killed or abducted you never heard squat about it. Now when it happens in east podunk EVERYONE knows about. It creates a FALSE sense that the world is more dangerous now then ever when in fact that couldn\'t be further from the truth. I had this exact argument with my cousin. He has 3 kids and was going on and on about the dangers around every corner these days etc etc. Well he was shocked when I pointed out that he couldn\'t be more wrong.
This is why Parents don\'t let their kids walk to school, stand at the bus stop by themselves, play outside, got to the park etc etc. And it all based on falsehoods and paranoia.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/vagetab.htmThat link has a nice little breakdown. Basically EVERY stat since 1973 is half of what it used to be. And note that the reporting of these kinds of offenses is also much higher so that in and of itself shows that the reduction has been dramatic. When we were kids teachers etc didn\'t HAVE to report suspicions, they are no REQUIRED by law. so even with greater reporting of crimes, with teachers / parents hyper-aware, the stats still went down dramatically.
Overall violent crime has been going down year after year. But you would never know it. Just like Terrorism etc. You have WAY more chance of getting hit by lightning then being killed by a terrorist but that didn\'t stop everyone from shitting on the constitution so they could "FEEL" safer.
This all feeds in to the mentality that we need to be policed more, that people shouldn\'t have more freedom but less etc. When in fact the stats show that overall when it comes to violent crime or crimes against kids we are WAY more behaved now then ever.
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