In the book 'free range kids' they talk about how your are 20,000 times more likely to have your kid die in a car accident than to be kidnapped by a stranger, yet how many of us put kids in the car seat every day, but teach them all about 'stranger danger' and keep a overbearing eye on them? The objective risk doesn't matter, its that parents feel a lack of control over kidnapping, which gets covered in the news, compared to driving..