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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]

Actually, I think you can go your whole life w/o ever being followed by a stranger or chased by a guy with his dick in his hand.  I don't think that I needed those experiences to grow up to be a capable adult.  As a teen, I walked my familiar route home every day, usually with a friend or two but even when I walked by myself there were lots of other kids walking home at the same time.  It was good exercise and for the most part a good lesson in autonomy and personal responsibility.  Out of the years that I walked home I had maybe 4 or 5 scary stranger danger experiences where someone was actively following me, trying to talk to me or...yes, even chasing me.  What I learned from those experiences is "Don't be a straggler".  The creeps are looking for stragglers.

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