On 15/07/2011 4:47 PM, Serene Vannoy wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 12:02 PM, Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:
>> In .com>,
>> Dave > wrote:
>>
>
>>> I am not so sure that the streets were much safer back then. There was a
>>> murder in my small town. We all knew that we had to be careful about
>>> strangers. There were cases of sexual molestation. There were kids
>>> killed and kids that went missing. It was part of life and people tried
>>> to street proof their kids. Now they cloister them.
>>
>> I don't think anyone believes it didn't happen in the past, but you
>> better believe it's more common now.
>
> Not according to all the research I've seen. It's just disseminated
> better in fright-media.


Yep. We read the occasional incident of teachers, priests etc molesting
children these days. Things like that often went unreported, but these
days we are also reading about people being charged for incidents
alleged to have happened decades ago and the RC church is facing one
lawsuit after another.