“It is a shame that this country is rife with pedophile kid snatchers.”
I don’t think there are more kid snatchers today than when we were kids, But there is definitely more media attention to them. If anything pedophile kid snatchers are probably fewer in number today because it days before tv new coverage, a stranger could come through town, grab an orphan off the street, kill them, and be gone before anyone knew (or cared) what happened.
“ I don’t think there are more kid snatchers today than when we were kids”
That is not my experience at all. I don’t think that’s true
I went to school w baby boomers. Near New York City Everyone had at least 6 siblings in our school other schools, public, private, reform, and so cognitively or physically - no school. Which were about none. Zero.
We were outside all day running into people. Talking to, avoiding or running away from. Later we were out til midnight at house parties of hundreds of kids
We had extensive networks of cousins.
We were very very aware of what was going on.
We knew who the creepy dads were and the boozy moms
Right now, I wouldn’t let anyone out of my house to walk down and get the mail
I now live in flyover I have heard of kids getting snatched out of their own back yards.