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Stranger danger is the idea or warning that all strangers can potentially be dangerous. The phrase is intended to encapsulate the danger associated with adults whom children do not know. The phrase has found widespread usage and many children will hear it during their childhood.
[5] [2] The panic popularized the misleading claim that 1.5 million children per year disappeared or were abducted in the United States, [1] [6] [7] [4] introduced the stranger danger narrative into public discourse [6] [7] and intensified tropes relating to the sexual predation and murder of boys by homosexuals in American culture, especially ...
Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State is a 2020 history book by American historian Paul M. Renfro. The book investigates the development of the "interlocking myths of stranger danger" in the 1970s and 1980s and their effects on American law and culture, including their influence over family values and social attitudes toward LGBT people.
A stranger is commonly defined as someone who is unknown to another. Since individuals tend to have a comparatively small circle of family, friends, acquaintances, and other people known to them—a few hundred or a few thousand people out of the billions of people in the world—the vast majority of people are strangers to one another.
The Safe Side is a series of safety videos and other products, founded in 2005 by Julie Clark, founder of The Baby Einstein Company, & John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted and co-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Potential No. 1 pick Abdul Carter will not work out at the NFL Combine due to a shoulder injury he suffered in the CFP, although he was recently cleared to resume training, per @AdamSchefter. pic ...
Blacklist entries as of June 2017 by agencies responsible for the entry In 2004 Russia pressured Lithuania, and in 2006 Sweden, into shutting down the Kavkaz Center website, a site that supports creation of a Sharia state in North Caucasus and hosts videos of terrorist attacks on Russian forces in the North Caucasus.
People who seek treatment for fear of flying usually have a debilitating phobia. (rudi_suardi/E+/Getty Images)