&gt; &quot;Stranger kidnappings&quot; (where someone the child doesn&#x27;t know kidnaps them) are incredibly rare, a child is at much more risk from traffic, guns, cancer, or swimming pools.<p>Agreed, I am a parent as well. But a word of warning, you&#x27;ll get mean looks and talk behind your back from playground parents if you take that attitude.<p>I&#x27;ve seen moms and dads on playground who are way out there in assessing what is threatening and what is not. They&#x27;d see a man walking by the playground going by their business and start calling their children closer to them acting all scared. Or make comments about &quot;hmm what are they doing, we haven&#x27;t seen this person before&quot;.  Mind you we were not in a crime ridden neighborhood, this is a quiet suburban area. Was going to say &quot;lay of the news people, take it easy&quot; but of course couldn&#x27;t they&#x27;d think I am crazy.<p>Oh and co-worker&#x27;s neighbor called CPS (child protective services) on them because they were playing by themselves in the cul-de-sac while the parents watched from inside the house. They of course don&#x27;t know who did it, and even if they knew there no repercussion they could take against that person. They can always claim &quot;they thought of the children&quot;, nobody can argue with that...