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Old 17-09-2007, 20:17   #1481
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Re: Toddler 'abducted' during holiday
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing View Post
I am not saying the world is a better place xaccers i wish i could feel comfortable letting my kids have the freedoms i had when i was a kid. I guess thats the joy of a media that revels in the dark side of life it does make you paranoid to a point and over protective and i am guilty of both of those.
But the world has not become any less safe it is just as parents we percieve it to be (I'm pretty sure the statistics bear this out but don't have time to find any now) and as the times article points out we have competitive parenting resulting in the situation of who can be the most overprotective parent.

An interesting decade old story from here in NY
http://www.cnn.com/US/9705/14/denmark.parents/ (wow CNN had online stories back in 1997)
and a comment on that.
http://www.justmorons.com/articles/day040114.html
Cultural differences on how we parent can be significant.
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