RE: Broadcast bulletins to alert Mainers to child abductions

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>]

> 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

The incidences of abduction may, indeed, be statistically equal
across recent generations.  Unfortunately for kids, "news" of this
nature is now intertwined with the many other societal results of
diminished kid-safe media efforts, ripe with disturbing messages and
diminished filtering efforts by broadcasters.  If anything, with the
degradation of quality of what kids see and hear through media, it's
any wonder that any relevant message hits home.

Bill O'Neill