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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
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On Mar 5, 2015, TomBoleware wrote: Moving the goal posts. The six-year old girl was not alone; she was with her 10-year old brother. And it's not like they just threw the children into traffic one day; they had taken shorter walks together beforehand. And as for whether the world is a scarier place now--perhaps if you live in an area where US drones are operating it is, but not in the US. Serious crime levels are down to where they were in 1963--back when I was ten years old riding my bike down Avenue J without my parents following me. "US crime rate at lowest point in decades. Why America is safer now. The crime rate for serious crimes, including murder, rape, and assault, has dropped significantly since the early 1990s in part because of changes in technology and policing, experts say. The last time the crime rate for serious crime – murder, rape, robbery, assault – fell to these levels, gasoline cost 29 cents a gallon and the average income for a working American was $5,807. That was 1963." http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/201......afer-now
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Mar 6, 2015, landmark wrote: Funny thing is that, being from NYC, the two of us should be twitching paranoid wrecks avoiding to some people's perceptions of the world.
If you need fear to enforce your beliefs, then your beliefs are worthless.
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TomBoleware Inner circle Hattiesburg, Ms 3163 Posts |
Oh I agree that crime rates against kids are not as bad as some may think.
But that’s not the only way children get hurt. Fact is, the No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents. Every hour a child dies from an injury. Leave a child alone long enough and they will find one of those ‘Preventable Accidents.’ Tom
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silvercup Loyal user 223 Posts |
What accident can't be prevented?
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On Mar 6, 2015, landmark wrote: Also quite possibly because many more are armed now and the bad guys do not have easy pickings. Unless they go to a gun free zone where only bad guys have guns.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On Mar 6, 2015, silvercup wrote: The preventable ones as opposed to the unpreventable ones which then is not an accident but deliberate and so it goes. I guess "preventable accident" is an oxymoron sort of. Have to think about that.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Now it is a gun debate?
I am out.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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TomBoleware Inner circle Hattiesburg, Ms 3163 Posts |
Danny I think you right.
Not a lot of six year olds getting robbed at gunpoint nowadays. But I will share this one tip on how to prevent a six year old from getting run over by a truck. Some may need to write this down: ‘You keep him off the street.’ Tom
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RNK Inner circle 7492 Posts |
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On Mar 6, 2015, TomBoleware wrote: And those who think a 10 year old can do this reliably without any chance of getting distracted...... well.....
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On Mar 6, 2015, Dannydoyle wrote: No Danny, not a gun debate...just being sarcastic. Pretend I never posted it and you never read it and I won't get involved in a gun debate here.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
This is worth reading, as it directly addresses different perceptions of parental responsibility.:
http://time.com/3720541/how-to-parent-like-a-german/ I'd rather you read the article. But to summarize: German parents generally put higher emphasis on our children being self-sufficient. Here's an example from my own observations. When a toddler fallss, the rest of the family waits for it to get itself up before moving along to wherever they were going. An American child would probably have been sitting in a stroller--or a car seat. A Turkish family would have surrounded the child with emergency help--everyone from grandma to the six-year-old sibling would surround the toddler with cuddles, cries of sympathy, and several helping hands. These are cultural difference. I'm not sure who's right or wrong. But we let our kids go into town by themselves, and don't think of it as neglect. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
I have seen parents over protect their children and seen their children, as soon as they got a little freedom go really wild. A lot of children run away from home because are being given no freedom. It is difficult knowing for sure whats right or wrong.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
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On Mar 7, 2015, stoneunhinged wrote: +1. Or summary of summary: Different strokes for different folks.
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