Monday 1st March 2004

Abduction Fear

Parents more worried about kidnap than road safety

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Nearly two thirds of parents are so worried about protection from abduction that they are not letting their children make their own way to school according to research released today.

The study has found over 60% of parents who drive their child to school would allow their children to walk or cycle if they knew they would be protected from strangers. The study shows that fear of abduction rates more highly than road safety fears.

The survey found that 41% of parents who drove to and from school actually lived less than a mile away.

Other facts that emerged included

• Over half of the children surveyed (51%) admitted that they do not always wear a cycle helmet
• 17% of children questioned thought travelling to school by car was the ideal way to get to school
• Three times more children would like to cycle to school than actually do

[Frik]

Hmm, I wonder how many times more likely you are to be run over than abducted?

More tabloid-induced fear methinks

[john75]

As a volunteer Youth worker recently I was discussing with some other youth workers how because of the way some parents wrap their children in cotton wool when they hit teenage years they have very poor risk assesment skills and awareness of danger.

I am about to start reading up on the subject of parenting any suggestions as to good books.

[ATG]

Another example of how we accept risk when we think we are in control, but not when the risk is perceived as being controlled by someone else ... regardless of the relative level of outright risk. E.g. I don't feel shit-scared when I am making progress behind the wheel, but I am a crap passenger if anyone else is pushing on and I have to sit there and watch.

[v8thunder]

Thanks to the 'child murder of the month' attitudes of the gutter press, and the 'ousting' campaigns, we are now led to believe that there is a rapist/murderer on every street corner. Kids & gullible parents are also led to believe that if there's a Gatso on every street corner, no-one will ever die on the roads, and if they do, it'll be the fault of a motorist, who will have been 'speeding' no doubt

[gh0st]

john75 said:

As a volunteer Youth worker recently I was discussing with some other youth workers how because of the way some parents wrap their children in cotton wool when they hit teenage years they have very poor risk assesment skills and awareness of danger. I am about to start reading up on the subject of parenting any suggestions as to good books.

This would also explain the rise in compensation culture as people cant take responsibility for their own actions anymore.

[john75]

Yes the compensation culture has certainly limited the activities that young people do today for example in Sept 2003 Norfolk County Council Education Dept banned children playing football because the ground was hard when I was at High School we used to play football on concrete.

Also I was amazed by the number of Schools that were closed when it snowed recently.

[CarZee]

This really characteristes the outrageous vanity that many parents have about their children. Well I've got news for them:

Your children are not special. They're ugly and stupid. No self-respecting paedophile would want anything to do with them. If you entered your children in a child slavery & paedolphilia auction, they'd be the raffle prize at the end of the day because no-one bought them.

Running them over would be far & away the best outcome.

[medic_02]

heartless.

[unlicensed]

CarZee said:

This really characteristes the outrageous vanity that many parents have about their children. Well I've got news for them: Your children are not special. They're ugly and stupid. No self-respecting paedophile would want anything to do with them. If you entered your children in a child slavery & paedolphilia auction, they'd be the raffle prize at the end of the day because no-one bought them. Running them over would be far & away the best outcome.

Ur sooo mean Zee. Truthful, but mean.

Perhaps if I was to start an auction house i could make a few shiny pennies on my percent.

[RichardD]

This really is an example of a result of political control. Keep them in a state of fear to distract from big issues such as housing will be so expensive by the time the stupid sprogs grow up that they will never afford to leave home.

Anyway, I'm off to hide in my underground bunker. You never know when there could be a terrorist attack. Ahem.

[rpguk]

CarZee said:

This really characteristes the outrageous vanity that many parents have about their children. Well I've got news for them: Your children are not special. They're ugly and stupid. No self-respecting paedophile would want anything to do with them. If you entered your children in a child slavery & paedolphilia auction, they'd be the raffle prize at the end of the day because no-one bought them. Running them over would be far & away the best outcome.

hate to pander to your ego, but classic post.