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Yes, we do get stories about a NYC kid being abducted on a 2-block walk from school. Specifically, one kid being abducted, in 1979. Getting hit by a car is a r
by jmharvey 9y ago
Yes, we do get stories about a NYC kid being abducted on a 2-block walk from school. Specifically, one kid being abducted, in 1979.
Getting hit by a car is a real risk worth accounting for. Getting abducted on the way to school isn't.
- Feniks 9y agoThere are also stories about adults getting kidnapped 2 blocks from home. People still leave the house.
- somethingsimple 9y ago> Getting abducted on the way to school isn't. I’m not so sure about that. I live in an affluent part of WA where there’s close to zero crime. A couple times a year we get emails from the school district with descriptions of cars and people that approached kids on their way to or the school, trying to get the kids into their cars. An actual abduction has never occurred in the 5 years that I’ve lived here, but clearly there are attempts.
- pixelperfect 9y agoAre abductions rare because they almost never happen in the first place, or because Americans take extreme measures to avoid them?
- mattmanser 9y agoAren't the extreme measures a recent thing, like the last 10 or 20 years? I don't remember being Molly cuddled like today's kids and I'm in my late 30s (UK).
- halleym 9y agomolly-coddled Molly cuddling does sound cuter, though.
- sgk284 9y agoEven before helicopter parenting was a thing in America (and this continues to hold today), the vast vast vast majority of abductions happen by a relative of the child. Abductions are already very rare, but of those that happen only 3.1% are by a stranger[1]. [1] https://www.seeker.com/child-abductions-by-strangers-very-rare-1767508216.html https://www.seeker.com/child-abductions-by-strangers-very-ra...