BUCKS COUNTY, PA, USA - CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY: On a beautiful sunny day in the suburbs, every street corner and development entrance road is blocked by the Mommy (& Daddy) Squad in their SUVs waiting for children to get off school buses? I live in a small development of 60 homes on 6 cul-de-sacs in central Bucks County, Pennsylvania; but, this phenomena takes place in suburbia all over the USA. These children SHOULD be walking from the bus stop to their homes on their own? BUT, instead, mommies (and daddies) are lining up their vehicles on both sides of these streets blocking traffic while awaiting the buses? We have become such a nation of wusses and whiners.
Children are no less safe, today, than they have been for 100 years. In fact, they are much safer, statistically, than they were in the 1970's. And, most child abduction are conducted by family members and close friends as opposed to "nutters" lurking around bus stops. Parents are way to over-protective, paranoid. Children NEED to be TAUGHT to be careful and then left on their own as much as possible. Teach them and then let them live, deal with, life. When they are 25, they can't be running to Mama exery time someone says "BOO!" They need to learn this slowly now while they are young. Unfortunately, that is the type of generations we have been raising for many years, now.
The modern, sensation-loving news media is partly to blame for this paranoia. Fifty years ago, Philadelphia news rarely reported any incidents as close as New York, let alone Los Angeles. Today, a kidnapping in LA is "news" on the East Coast, too. IT SHOULD NOT BE. There is no reason for this type of stuff to be reported outside the local area UNLESS the suspected kidnapper has bonafide ties to another area AND it is strongly suspected that he/she may be headed there. Otherwise, it is LOCAL NEWS and should stay LOCAL NEWS!
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