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In addition to stranger danger warnings, programs from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, local law enforcement agencies and other organizations offer free fingerprinting services usually done in schools, childcare centers, shopping malls, fairs, and festivals.
In December 1984/January 1985, [inconsistent] [2] the nonprofit National Child Safety Council began a nationwide program called the Missing Children Milk Carton Program in the United States of putting photos of missing children on milk cartons. By March 1985, 700 of 1600 independent dairies in the United States had adopted the practice of ...
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 ...
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In January, the state gave YSI a $7.3 million, five-year contract to run the new Broward Youth Treatment Center, a 28-bed program less than a mile away from Thompson. And this summer, YSI won contracts to take over two more state facilities, one in the Tampa area and another in Jacksonville.
As a result, fewer parents are willing to allow their children to walk to school, photos of missing children have been more widely distributed (for example, on milk cartons) and the concept of "stranger danger" has been promoted, the idea that all adults not known to the child must be regarded as potential sources of danger. [53]
Stranger anxiety is a form of distress that ... reactions when strangers are seen and to teach "stranger danger" precariously. ... is the Circles Program, which color ...