This is insane. The chances of your kid getting kidnapped by a stranger is so low that its ridiculous to be afraid. Statistics vary, but not by much. The Justice Department report says there were 115 kidnapping a by stranger and 46 of those kids were murdered in 2002. Either way, with 60,700,000 children 14 and under in the United States, the odds of your child being the victim of a stranger abduction are roughly 1 in a million. You’d be wiser to cancel those horseback-riding lessons. Your child is more likely to be killed in an equestrian accident (Odds in one year for people who ride horses: 1 in 297,000.) Or better yet, pull him off the football team. (Yearly odds of dying for youth football players: 1 in 78,260.) And if you really want to protect them, sell your car. (Lifetime odds of dying as a passenger: 1 in 228. Odds of dying this year alone: 1 in 17,625.) Or, to put another spin on it, your child is 700 times more likely to get into Harvard than to be the victim of such an abduction.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:09:08 +0000
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