On 4/27/2010 11:53 AM, gloria.p wrote:
> barbie gee wrote:
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>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Stu wrote:
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>>> .....and the kids were safe to play and run all day, usually ending up
>>> at a friends place for lunch, they played outside from morning to
>>> night. It's not safe for the kids to do something like that now.
>>>
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>> we've only convinced ourselves it's "not safe".
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> Where do you live? Not many places are still safe to turn kids loose.
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> Do you read the newspaper? It was very safe in my children's day.
> Not today. There are too many people out there searching for kids
> to molest and feeling entitled to do so.

What makes you think that those same people weren't "out there" in "your
children's day"? What has changed is sex offender registries and
newspapers with flagging sales sensationalizing the issue--"did you know
that a sex offender was living near XYZ school" the reporter says in
dramatic tones. Never mind that the "sex offense" was indecent exposure
while peeing by the side of the road at 2AM and having the misfortune to
get caught at it by an overzealous cop--she's out to get your kids.

Every "sex offender" is not a child molester.

But fear is big business these days.