[blueski]

Originally Posted by driveway

I'm not a parent so maybe that is why this is a thing I don't really understand. Every single metric, statistic, and study says a place like Calgary, or pretty much anywhere in the 1st world, is safer and less dangerous now than it's ever been, yet EVERYONE is so much more concerned about the potential of bad things happening (even me).

Like, why did your wife need them to have a cell phone? What is the issue that could arise that having a cell phone would solve? Or make better? I mean, I would probably feel better too, but it's really so irrational.

Is it TV? Movies? Is it that cell phones exist now, so not having the ability to be in contact seems so much scarier? Is it Amber Alerts and Nancy Grace?

Why, despite the vastly safer life kids lead today, are so many people so much more worried about them?

Media is different than it used to be and we don't know our neighbors as well.