In the US, some things seem designed to sabotage parenting happiness - and kids' well being. One thing: False messaging about stranger kidnapping risks; it cre

In the US, some things seem designed to sabotage parenting happiness - and kids' well being. One thing: False messaging about stranger kidnapping risks; it creates unwarranted fear and that profoundly changes parenting. Kids are generally very safe (per FBI's very diligent stats) on their own. However, LEO and media continually mash common custodial dispute and runaway numbers with super rare stranger kidnappings and present a level of risk that is nearly a lie. Compounding this is news reporting of distant tragedies as if they occurred in our own community. Another thing is the extinction of free ranging for kids and the critical life skills (independence, interdependence, problem solving) they learned there. We've replaced free range areas with walls of no trespassing signs and swapped necessary unsupervised time with a constant adult presence. Elementary age kids need an increasing amount of time w/o adults to learn how to function. We've robbed them of ~all of that and opted to pointlessly exhaust adults instead. Why? Apparently to feed a patently false LEO/Media narrative that kids alone are in immediate danger of harm. ref: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-missinggirl-data-idUSKCN1P52BJ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-missinggirl-dat...