The big irony, of course, is that statistically all the major violent crimes are WAY down, to the lowest points they've been at in decades. That, and the big boogey-man fears that people carry around (child abduction, home invasion, etc.) are so statistically small as to not even really exist, at least as far as scary strangers *out there* are concerned. One certainty though is that raising a child to not take the slightest risks and to grow up normalized to being joined at Mommy's hip will create a dependent, easily cracked pseudo-adult.
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Date: 2010-02-07 09:46 pm (UTC)The big irony, of course, is that statistically all the major violent crimes are WAY down, to the lowest points they've been at in decades. That, and the big boogey-man fears that people carry around (child abduction, home invasion, etc.) are so statistically small as to not even really exist, at least as far as scary strangers *out there* are concerned. One certainty though is that raising a child to not take the slightest risks and to grow up normalized to being joined at Mommy's hip will create a dependent, easily cracked pseudo-adult.