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Media stories have often exaggerated the risk of "stranger danger" by emphasizing rare and isolated incidents. [11] [12] Especially regarding child sexual abuse, the greatest risk comes from members of the child's family. Nevertheless, "stranger danger" is more likely to be the focus of news headlines and education campaigns. [13]
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.
[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 ...
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.
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Stranger danger, the idea or warning that all strangers can potentially be dangerous Strangers (disambiguation) , includes uses of The Strangers The Exo Stranger/Elisabeth Bray, a character in the Destiny video game franchise
Parents are keeping children indoors in order to keep them safe from danger. Louv believes that growing parental fear of "stranger danger", heavily fueled by the media, may be the leading cause in nature-deficit disorder, as parents may be protecting children to such an extent that it disrupts the child's ability to connect to nature. [12]