See, I like the point you are making, but how do we know that overprotection was not a cause of the increased safety? The numbers quoted in this article look r

See, I like the point you are making, but how do we know that overprotection was not a cause of the increased safety? The numbers quoted in this article look ridiculously high to me: https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-children-america-unsolved-cases/story?id=19126967 https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-children-america-unsolved-... But even at a tenth of that, making your kids harder to abduct may be the main driving factor in lowering kids abductions.