oceanblueeyes
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I raised my kids in Belmont (a very safe town) and we (all parents) always drove our kids to school....all the way through High School, if they didn't drive.
I think that walk to to the bus stop is unusual but Marlene must have been lulled into a false sense of security or something. Having worked DOC, I never would have allowed my child to walk that route. I have come to realize that most of America doesn't think about criminals and the things that could happen. Yes, I am jaded..and paranoid about such things. It comes with the job. This is a violent country with more predators around than any other country, but most of the people living here dont even give it a thought.
Our children caught the bus and we live in a much more remote rural area that Sierra lives in. When I was 15 I also caught the bus by myself and there were no houses around our home for miles.
Millions of children catch the bus to go to school everyday and many of them live in rural areas and are the only ones catching the bus at that particular stop.
I think the vast majority of American's children are very safe from stranger predators. Children being abducted from their bus stop is extremely rare. They are much more likely to be struck by lightning, drown, get hit on their bike, or get killed in a vehicle accident than being abducted by a stranger.
Some parents have no choice. Working isnt an option anymore for many families in our country. Sierra had made that same route to the bus stop since October of last year and nothing happened but the truth is a predator can strike anywhere...even in a very congested city or on a street filled with people or right out of their own homes and no one sees or notices a thing.
Far more children are in grave danger right inside of their own homes since more are abused/neglected/tortured/ and murdered by one of their parents or both... than they are from being kidnapped by a stranger which only happens in about 5% of cases where a child winds up raped and murdered.
IMO