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Yes, but over 200,000 children were abducted by family members and only 115 children were victims of the stereotypical kidnapping where the child was held overnight, transported 50 miles or more, killed, ransomed or held with the intent to keep the child permanently.
I wasn't going to take a chance and have my son become a statistic or a victim.
The problem with the sex offender registry is that
1. many sex offenders are never caught and so the list gives you a false sense of safety.
2. many of the sex offenders are adult on adult rather than adult on child crimes.
3. some of the people placed on the registry are really NOT sex offenders - they had consensual sex with teenage partners and the parents pressed charges, so the 18 to 21 year old *adult* was registered as an offender.
4. most of the sex offenders offended against girls or women, not against boys or men.
You seriously need to look at risk rather than being so scared to live.
I work with sex offenders and have no concerns sending my boys into the bathroom. You need to look harder at your computers and trusted adult friends if you are on the lookout for pedophiles. Registry? Most offenders have never been convicted, sorry.
In a 1999 report by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children there were 58,000 children
abducted by non-family members. If a mother wants to take her son to a women's rest room
(in an enclosed stall) for whatever reason, let her.
Non family members. Not strangers from the bathroom. Statistically this is usually Mommy's creepy new boyfriend.
The problem with the sex offender registry is that
1. many sex offenders are never caught and so the list gives you a false sense of safety.
2. many of the sex offenders are adult on adult rather than adult on child crimes.
3. some of the people placed on the registry are really NOT sex offenders - they had consensual sex with teenage partners and the parents pressed charges, so the 18 to 21 year old *adult* was registered as an offender.
4. most of the sex offenders offended against girls or women, not against boys or men.
You seriously need to look at risk rather than being so scared to live.
Would you say that and give your list (above) to the father of Adam Walsh?
Are you saying parents shouldn't be cautious since there are people who are called pedophiles?
No need for the last comment.
Would you say that and give your list (above) to the father of Adam Walsh?
Are you saying parents shouldn't be cautious since there are people who are called pedophiles?
No need for the last comment.
Sure there are pedophiles. More often though there are car accidents, chokings, drownings, traumatic brain injuries from sports, accidental poisonings, lightning strikes, cancer, and mudslides. All of which are more likely to kill your child than a trip to the bathroom.
John Walsh by the way has changed his views dramatically on "stranger danger" in the last few years.
My son is 8 and at this point I take him with me only if I also have to go and we are together. I don't want to leave him outside waiting for me by himself. I just don't feel he is safe in that situation. But if he needs to go and I don't, then, I'll send him to men's room and wait by the door for him. I don't know what the big deal is though. What can a 8 year old do to you in the women's bathroom?
I didn't read all the replies but I think in the majority of situations a boy is perfectly capable of using the men's restroom by himself and there is no need to accompany mom into the women's restroom.
I don't remember how old my son was when he stopped coming with me...probably 5 if not sooner.
For those who are scared of "strange men" in the bathroom, if your kids are school aged how do you think they cope at school in the bathroom, when there other males besides just the students using the bathrooms?
I didn't read all the replies but I think in the majority of situations a boy is perfectly capable of using the men's restroom by himself and there is no need to accompany mom into the women's restroom.
I don't remember how old my son was when he stopped coming with me...probably 5 if not sooner.
For those who are scared of "strange men" in the bathroom, if your kids are school aged how do you think they cope at school in the bathroom, when there other males besides just the students using the bathrooms?
What schools have men using the bathrooms? None that I know of.
Most kindergartens, btw, have bathrooms in the classroom and most elementary schools take the children to the bathroom as a class (though kids *can* sometimes go alone if they have to go between those times - mostly though at least two kids go together).
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