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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Of course, I don't know the time frame you are discussing for you or your kids.

But the perception that things are more dangerous now than they were in the sixties, seventies or eighties is false. If anything, we are safer now than we ever have been.

It's sensationalism in the news and John Walsh's promotion of the Adam Walsh story that makes us think things are more dangerous now.

As to crime, perhaps you're right; but traffic is definitely ten times as dangerous now as it was in my childhood. It may have been different in the US, but people behind the Iron Curtain had a lot fewer cars back then and the cars themselves (mostly Russian brands) were a lot slower.