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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I think that's a really incorrect way to assess risk. A child is more likely to be abused by family, friends and those involved in their lives day to day for sure. But this is almost entirely because of the amount of time in contact with and relationship status of family, teachers and coaches. It's definitely not because of the inherent goodness of transient people.
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That's the point though.
If you are afraid of your child being sexually assaulted or kidnapped then you should be focusing on the causes of sexually assault and kidnapping and working to mitigate those. There is minimal risk from the vagrants because exposure time is low and the lack of any relationship.
But if you asked people who is more likely to harm their kid a vagrant at the C-Train station or the gym teacher the majority of people are picking vagrant.
So people choose to restrict tasks based on risk that simply doesn't exist while ignoring much higher risk areas that their children are exposed to longer.