Re:How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence
by tempestn on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:00AM
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I'm using personal experience. I live in Canada, and I'm a parent, so I tend to frequent places that kids congregate. From my experience there are plenty of opportunities out there for someone to abduct children if they were halfway intelligent and motivated to do so. If indeed there was only one incidence over a two year span in the entire country (although your reference is apparently 25, not one?) it therefore suggests a lack of potential abductors.
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Re:How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence
by new299 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:18AM
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> it therefore suggests a lack of potential abductors
Or a lack of unsupervised children?
I don't know. I think you're probably correct. But really the assertion would be might stronger if there was more than anecdotal evidence to back it up.
This is what I'm trying to say the data presented in the article, is on the level of anecdotal evidence. Which, tends to weaken the argument rather than strengthen it.