Re: Broadcast bulletins to alert Mainers to child abductions

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

I think the pros(finding abducted children) outweigh
the cons(causing the slight mental distress of a few
paranoid mothers) in this case.


--- Mark Laurence <mlaurence@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 09:25  PM, Bill
> O'Neill wrote:
> 
> > If news media can accomplish increased awareness
> and bottom-line
> > results of happy endings for one kid, perhaps that
> of one of us on
> > this list, then raise the ad rates and may the
> stock soar.
> 
> But what about the millions of kids and parents who
> have a less happy 
> childhood because they are unnecessarily frightened
> by the "news?"  You 
> hear parents all the time say "these days, you can't
> let your kids do 
> anything because it's just not safe."  The truth is,
> it's just about as 
> safe as it was for us when we were growing up.  So a
> whole generation 
> grows up afraid to go outside, when there's
> absolutely no need of it.
> 
> Mark
> 


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