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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the OP has the right to be concern.  As the old saying "when your neighbor loses his job, it is a recession.  When  you lose your job, it is a depression."  Crime statistics is meaningless if it happens to your child.

Is it safer if your child walk home from school in the Mclean area versus Falls Church?  Not necessarily.  Pedophiles live in both Mclean and Falls Church, just saying.

Yes, your child can walk home in a group of at least 4 kids that live within one block from your home.  Otherwise, the answer is NO.[/quote]

The kid is 14, not 4. You're not doing your child any favors by trying to constantly bubble proof the world they live in, and not allowing them to develop the confidence to walk 10 minutes without a parent or grandparent.

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I think that it is actually prudent to know which kids are walking home on your street.  If you have several other kids walking home around the same time that your kid is or you know that there are neighbors home, there is a certain safety in that even if your kid is technically walking alone.

Stranger abductions might be rare.  But things like having a car follow you or a weirdo flashing you happen - especially when you're walking alone and[b] it is scary when it happens. [/b]
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But then you learn you can cope with "scary".  Do you think they will never be confronted with anything scary?  Talk through things that might happen, how to handle it.  You don't help people grow up into capable adults by shielding them from never, ever potentially running into anything that might possibly not be roses and sunshine.[/quote]

This happened to me twice as a kid.  First in ES when there was a "flasher" around our school.  And he flashed a couple of us girls.  We giggled.  Then as a teen my mother had hired a handyman, once he came to our door when I was alone, I opened it, he said he was there to get a check from my mother.  As I explained she wasn't home, he pulled all of his glory out of the zipper of his pants for me to see.  I immediately closed the door and he left.

I'm still standing.

I'm actually a little worried that my kids haven't experienced anything like this.  Not that I want my teens see a handyman's bits, but they really haven't experienced a tiny fraction of what I did coming of age in the early 80's.  They've had immediate access to mom or dad by cell phone, where I used to call and get a busy signal and had to cool my heels wherever I was.  They haven't taken public transportation by themselves, where I used to hop on metro buses and meet up with friends at the mall.  They haven't had to figure out a whole lot beyond school and sports.[/quote]

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