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Look, I'm single, never married, no bastard children, so I don't have any first hand experience with this, but I can't imagine that, if I did have a family, every door wouldn't be locked, there wouldn't be very large, very aggressive work dog in the house

Occasionally, somebody forgets to lock a door.

Elizabeth Smart was taken by someone who snuck in through a second-floor window and cut the screen, and who scared her little sister into not sounding the alarm.

Some people used to have big dogs until their kids got a nasty bite.

There's about a zillion possible things that could contribute...do I really have to name them ALL? It's obvious that most of the time, all of them DON'T go wrong, since stranger abduction from the home is an exceptionally rare phenomenom. But it doesn't take a lot of imagination to consider that, statistically, somebody in the entire world is going to let their guard down, just for a moment, right when somebody is ready to take advantage of it.

But it doesn't take a lot of imagination to consider that, statistically, somebody in the entire world is going to let their guard down, just for a moment, right when somebody is ready to take advantage of it.

Look, I'm not going to argue that there isn't such a thing as a statistical anomaly.

On the other hand, we don't stop the presses every time a child is struck dead by a bolt of lightning, or drowns in a bathtub, or gets run over by a Mack truck. [And no one in this country seems to give a damn that a child is murdered in its mother's womb about once every thirty seconds].

But every time I see one of these child abduction stories, I just get the sense that they don't feel right. In the Danielle van Dam case, you had the parents smoking marijuana at sex parties, and the Mom flirting at night clubs with the guy who eventually murdered her daughter. In the Elizabeth Smart case, you must have had something really screwy going on in the Smart family for that girl to choose life as some sort of a sex slave in a homeless guy's paranoid delusional fantasy of a religious movement over returning to life with her own family [she had multiple, documented opportunities to make a run for it, yet she consistently chose not to].