On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:48:52 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Apr 27, 11:53*am, "gloria.p" > wrote:
>> barbie gee wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Stu wrote:
>> >> .....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.
>>
>> > we've only convinced ourselves it's "not safe".
>>
>> Where do you live? *Not many places are still safe to turn kids loose.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> gloria p
>
>Are there any more, per capita, than there ever were--or do we
>simply hear about it more nowadays? Pedophilia rates are probably
>not much higher than 50 years ago, but I imagine it was hushed
>up a lot more readily then.
>
>Note: the above is mere conjecture. I don't have kids, so I'm not
>really interested in pedophilia frequency.

Pedophillia is as prevalent as always... only real difference is that
in the relatively near past there were always parents about actually
parenting. Aside from the fact that there are relatively few parents
about today parenting has become a lost skill... parenting like
everything else, if you don't use it you lose it... and nowadays
parents never even used it day one, so they never had it to lose. Oh,
and another big difference, today people are becoming older and older
before having kids, today they are in fact grandparents having kids.
Forty something year olds are from what I've witnessed much too old to
be having newborns, they haven't the physical energy and certainly not
the emotional energy.... and many will never live long enough to bring
their kids to adulthood, it's sad.