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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check your neighborhood on the VSP Sex Offender Registry:

http://sex-offender.vsp.virginia.gov/sor/index.html

*** My current zip-code lists ten, while my childhood zip contains 76 !
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Naw. This information isn't really that useful. For the following reason:

1) Sex offender =/= pedophile.
2) Most people on that would probably keep their lights off and avoid children.
3) Concentrates on the bigger risk (hit by a car, etc).
4) Don't most parents escort their kids?

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Eww, who supervises their kids once they hit school age. So lame! You give out the candy. The kids go off in friend groups. [/quote]

On Halloween I do and mine are 9 and 10!  I walk with a group of other moms well behind them, but we still keep an eye on them and they don't mind (ages range from 8-12).  Too many people wearing disguises when it is pitch black outside.  My kids are allowed to go biking/playing around the neighborhood unsupervised with a group of friends and while there is daylight.  But Halloween is a whole other thing.[/quote]

Please explain how Halloween is a whole other thing.  I too let my kids go trick or treating.  We live far back in a neighborhood and rarely get cars. I know everyone on my street.  The kids go around the block and cup de sacs.  So why is it a whole other thing than say letting your kids bike up to the local park?  There are a ton of people everywhere, neighbors with doors open, cars driving slower, if any at all.  Do you think there are people that will take them? I honestly don't understand the rationale here.  [/quote]

It's different because it's dark out.  You might disagree that matters, but it's pretty silly to say you honestly don't understand the rationale.  Kids are harder to see in the dark.  You wouldn't know if there were strangers in the neighborhood (because it's dark and people are in costume).  Kids get excited about candy and might not pay a lot of attention to making sure that the other kids in the group aren't lagging behind.  Even a kid who knows the neighborhood might get disoriented, or scared.  And even on Halloween, I enforce a reasonable (if later than normal) bedtime.

My parents were the opposite of helicopter parents, but they, and every other set of parents I knew, accompanied their children on Halloween.  They usually waited on the sidewalk while we went up to the door, but sometimes they would come up and say hi to the neighbors and chat a little.  One parent would stay home and hand out candy, and the other would shepherd the kids.  [/quote]

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