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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by kazinator on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:05AM (#34194827)
No amount of zoning reform can fix the fact that it's not safe for kids in America, because it's crawling with predators. Even if you have school, shop, friends, and all that, within four blocks of each other.
Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by Swizec on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:39AM (#34194980)
> because it's crawling with predators

Indeed. The vast majority of danger to kids comes from people they know and trust.

Most kidnappings are custody disputes, for example.

Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by endominus on Saturday December 31, 2022 @05:25AM (#34195193)
We just need to get kids away from their parents and everyone else they know. Then they'll finally be safe! Maybe those nice Mongolians will take care of them...
Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by imtringued on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:54AM (#34205618)
What's wrong with having Mongolian friends of the same age?
Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by TylerE on Saturday December 31, 2022 @08:07AM (#34196111)
And most child sex abuse is perpetrated by family
Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by jdpigeon on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:58AM (#34195072)
What the Fox News are you talking about?
Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by mindslight on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:53AM (#34196922)
By uncritically repeating the nonsense that sensationalist mass media spews, OP does illustrate two of the main dynamics ultimately causing this. Parents are gobbling up this malevolent nonsense and then hovering over their kids to protect them from their own delusions, and the kids themselves are also being blasted with the apocalyptic media fire hose.
Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by kazinator on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:55PM (#34198851)
I've not watched television since around 1990. I don't read papers. I don't visit news sites. Never had a Twitter account though I'm on Mastodon now. Never had a Facebook account. I mostly use the Internet in connection with some very specific interests of mine.

I do observe that your opinion that the mass media is all garbage and wrong isn't very original. You just repeating that from somebody. I suspect it's a common sentiment in far right circles. This is because the media in fact often reports the truth, and it's quite balanced and responsible, which upsets some people.

The news does naturally like bad news. The observation that a crime didn't happen in such and such a district over the past week will not make the news. That's just the way it is. It's the nature of the game.

For almost exactly the same basic reason you will only find bugs in a bug database. Nobody opens a ticket to tell you that your code works amazingly well.

Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by mcculley on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:41PM (#34199929)
On what are you basing the assertion that America is "crawling with predators"? Do you think it is worse than before? Worse than other places?
Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by mindslight on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:55PM (#34200087)
Please list any statistic to support your previous assertion that "America ... is crawling with predators"

Perhaps you were trying to make the point that people are reacting to a mistaken belief, which seems inline with some of what you just said. If that was the case, you didn't succeed, which is why I made the comment I did.

And I've no idea why you're trying to invoke "far right" except as some weird shoehorned ad hominem. For reference I'm a libertarian that has recently come around to voting conservative (which in 2022 means Democrat), because I would rather suffer bureaucratic totalitarianism than autocratic totalitarianism.