Worries of Parents

5 Worries Parents Should Drop, And 5 They Shouldn't : Shots - Health News Blog : NPR:

"Based on surveys Barnes collected, the top five worries of parents are, in order:

Kidnapping
School snipers
Terrorists
Dangerous strangers
Drugs

But how do children really gt hurt or killed?

Car accidents
Homicide (usually committed by a person who knows the child, not a stranger)
Abuse
Suicide
Drowning

Why such a big discrepancy between worries and reality? Barnes says parents fixate on rare events because they internalize horrific stories they hear on the news or from a friend without stopping to think about the odds the same thing could happen to their children."

I think the blame should not be placed on parents who

"fixate on rare events because they internalize horrific stories they hear on the news...

but on the media who bombard parents and children with the horrific stories.