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Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by csours on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:38PM (#33629285)
10 yard penalty, review logical fallacies, other team gets the ball.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy

Children spend waaaay more time around parents and relatives.

Same reason why you are more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than a stranger. (This is not monocausal, and I do not mean to imply that simply spending time with someone will cause a crime)

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Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by Stevvo on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:47PM (#33629441)
Do they really though? In a lot of families kids are at school, then driven off to soccer/dance/whatever in a lot of other time.
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Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by csours on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:05PM (#33629717)
It really depends on the exact framing of the question.

Are children safer ALONE with a random stranger or with a family member? Why is the child alone with a random stranger?

There are some broad daylight kidnappings, but they are relatively rare. They are relatively rare because it's much easier for a kidnapper to abscond with someone who trusts them.

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