TV, Fear Porn, Air Conditioning and Video games...
Fear Porn...it’s not like child molesters were invented a year or so ago.
Kids had to deal with them back then. A strange car or person following you, go to a major street. Then walk into a store, a fire station, a library and tell the workers there what is happening.
If you don’t get used to that, you never encounter it because you’re inside all the time you don’t develop that sense of danger and know what to do about it.