Exactly.<p>&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>The reason why child kidnappings (non-stranger) are seemingly common is because the vast majority of these are by family members (e.g. parents during a custody dispute, grandparents, etc).<p>Child molesters are also very rare (although you can make them seem more common by massaging the statistics, as some charities&#x2F;politicians&#x2F;media like to do), and on average in a large retailer there won&#x27;t even be a single one.<p>There are stories where kids have literally died both because they were scared to approach a stranger, or a stranger was scared to approach them.<p>I have a kid. I am going to teach them to approach any adult, with a slight bias towards people who work there (simply because they are more likely to know the procedure for lost child, not because they&#x27;re inherently safer&#x2F;less safe).