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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
I quote this obscenity, because no matter where you live, it is not safe to let your children run free. Crap like this, It happens EVERY DAY.
This isn't the world of 'yesterday' I ran the streets 50 years ago also. Look around, read the papers.
Why they shouldn't, indeed.
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Psychopaths live everywhere. I don't believe they didn't exist 50 years ago. I don't even think there are fewer of them, related to the total population, in, say, Croatia, than in the U.S. We are never going to be "safe" from them, no matter what we do, unless by some miracle psychopathology disappears off the face of the earth.
There are of course things we can do to be safER. If a child plays in a deserted park, trees hiding him/her from sight, with no older children or adults about who could help, or if a child or an adult walks a dodgy neighbourhood alone after dark, these are obviously risky situations and should be avoided, no question about that. On the other hand, a child (or, more frequently, a group of children) walking to school in broad daylight on a normal street, in the midst of people going about their daily business, who are not going to just shrug their shoulders if a maniac is insane enough to try something in those circumstances, is a totally different proposition altogether. I would at the very least hesitate to think that the vast majority of the world's parents are being criminally irresponsible in allowing it, or that they are missing something that is obvious to me. After all, they are the best judges of what works locally and what doesn't, which was one of my points.
I have only to think of the local cases of abduction, rape of murder I know of, involving teenagers and younger adults (those involving younger children in the last 15 years were cases of psychopathological parental abuse) to conclude that none of them would have been prevented by dropping children off to school and picking them up every day, which seems to be the norm in the UK and the U.S. these days, and what my posting was about. They involved woods or overgrown parks, and cars in the middle of the night or on rarely used roads. What the sickos are after are situations where they won't be observed.