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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  Just want to say, predators go where the prey is, and especially where the prey is unprotected by another.  This goes for lions looking at calves at the watering hole, and for human predators.

So by way of analogy, the lion does not choose just any calf.  She chooses the lamb that is the easy mark, maybe away from its mother or mother and calf are a little away from the herd.

Likewise, human predators find jobs where they will have access to prey, in particular, unrestricted or unmonitored access (e.g. teacher/coach/priest/camp counselor) They are not hanging out in the wilderness, they are in the watering holes of schools or the mall.  (Unless the wilderness is the unmonitored bike trail where prey jogs along alone.)

And yes, kids are more likely to be abused by someone they know, but hello, it's because someone they know is more likely to be given unrestricted, unmonitored access to the kid.

I mean people, just think about it.  Yes, everything can be construed as a danger to our kids, but some set-ups are more dangerous than others. Unmonitored access is the problematic set-up.

Here in LA there have been girls/young women raped by Uber drivers and it has been underreported.  Two LAPD officers told some parents/kids this in a drug awareness program a few months ago.  There is a story about one of them in the local news now.

I don't let my 14 y.o. DD uber, mostly because our lives are not set up so she has to uber places.  But if she were to uber, it would not be alone.  A gaggle of girls is safer than one alone.[/quote]

+1,000,000![/quote]

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