On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:09:41 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:53:32 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> no, i think it's that no matter where you live, you hear about every
>> ****ing child molester in the entire country. it's more hysteria than
>> anything else.
>
> I find it hard to believe the rate of child abuse
> has changed much in the last century or so.
> I suspect that in the past, people were more
> likely to keep quiet about it.
>
> Sort of like cancer. People didn't talk about
> cancer as much in the old days.

exactly so.

your pal,
blake