It is a much more dangerous world and that is sad. Kids don't have much time to just be kids anymore.
That is because the media is scaring people into believing the United States has become dangerous since President Bush has come into office. I find the numbers impossible. I mean 100,000 9-19 and the average is 11. How can they even say that? Plus this has been going on forever and only now is getting the attention. It is like everything else in the world, you tell your kids the dangers that lurk around and get them up to speed on signs, preditors etc. It seems to me like these are mostly runaways as has always been the case. OK maybe a few are girls who want the case as in the Phoenix case. Let's not scare ourselves silly here because the media wants us to. Plus we have 260 million people here in America and were talking 100,000 odds are your and my kids are safe (at least from this).