It's that 25% we need to be very concerned about. I also don't feel that I am being alarmist about this issue.
You are quite right. But, crime rates are dropping in the US and they are below the rates that parents raised in the '80s and '90s dealt with when they were growing up.It is a very different world out there than the world we grew up in.
I think most kids will talk to strangers no matter what the parents tell them. I think kids need to understand how to talk to strangers and how to deal with temptations to leave with them. Of course, some kids just won't be safe talking to strangers and parents have to deal with those kids differently.
I don't have any objection to you bringing this to the notice of others. Maybe I'm just grouchy today. I thought the title of the thread, "Important - Share with everyone!!" was a bit alarmist. I really would have a preferred a video that had some suggestions of what to do about the fact that kids were so willing to walk off with a stranger.That is what the video is about, kids talking to strangers even after being told, daily, not to.
I don't understand what you find objectionable about my bringing this to others notice.
I had various co-workers who helped us who my nephew did not know, test him in the park and stores. He performed excellently.