"but being overly alert on this is better than ignorant." Please cite any evidence that this is true in practice. Seriously. The long-term cost to treating k

"but being overly alert on this is better than ignorant." Please cite any evidence that this is true in practice. Seriously. The long-term cost to treating kids like this is probably vastly higher than any possible damage caused by the threats. (IE i would even expect it causes more kids to die younger over time) Humans are very good at significantly overestimating the risks they can easily reason about, and significantly underestimate the ones they can't.