Nearly 90 percent of adults say they feel less safe than when they were growing up, even though today’s crime rates are at a level not seen since the early 1960s! So, if crime rates in the US and the world in general have gone down so dramatically, why do we remain convinced that our …
The Awful, Horrible, Maybe Not Quite as Terrifying as You Thought Facts
When writing my book, Badass Parenting, I struggled mightily with how to present the facts about childhood danger without scaring you so badly that you’d put the book down and never touch it again. It’s hard to discuss subjects as harrowing as sexual abuse, bullying, and abduction without dragging you and your child into a …