[konaice]

Oh my. This epidemic needs to end. We've put the fear of God into our kids about going off with strangers and staying safe...

But try to tell that to smartin, Glenn and twigs....

Apparently its politically incorrect to mention the need for parenting these days...

[smartin]

This is where your faulty logic lies. Even with the best parenting, predators can get to people.

[twigs]

Apparently its politically incorrect to mention the need for parenting these days...

You are one of the most presumptious posters I've ever come across on FR. And I've been here for years. I'm going to ask my daughter if I could have done more warning and better parenting. I can see her eyes roll now because I've been a very hands-on parent who left a career so that I could be there when she needed. I was strict too. How in the world could you POSSIBLY make such disgusting presumptions about any of us here who are putting the blame where it belongs.

And I entirely agree with the poster to whom you responded. This epidemic needs to end. Good parenting is an important part of it. That includes teaching your children to be careful. It also includes the Mrs. Kalpoe's and Mrs. van der Sloot's of the world to teach their boys to respect young women--to not rape them and not murder them!

[Toespi]

If a tiger escapes from the zoo and kills a child who is on a playground, several hundred feet from her parents, do you blame the parents, tiger or the zookeeper?

[brothers4thID]

There's a need for parenting and then there's the harsh unsubstantiated holier-than-thou comments you are making about a mother who just had her daughter's death confirmed.

Have a little compassion.