Fears of stranger danger and lack of good pedestrian paths also make parents afraid of letting their children walk to school, to the store, or to the playground.
Not exact matches
Firstly, I should point out that most sexual crime is committed by someone the victim knows - «
stranger danger» is less
of a
fear than «partner
danger»... or in many circumstances «pimp
danger».
They
fear the stigma attached to it, and worry about the potential
dangers of meeting
strangers online.
And as she grew older it became evident that she
feared almost nothing — perhaps only horses and something she couldn't quite name, a
strange presence
of danger not quite or not really a part
of the world.
Such settings create a
strange atmosphere that always borders on horror, so often giving the same instinct
of fear and dread, but driven by the unnerving absence
of life, countered only by the stray cats that rule over these places, and a silence broken only by the sounds
of enemies that break through the WiiMote speaker to warn
of approaching
danger.
Further, a
fear of crime and «
stranger danger» has led many parents to keep their kids indoors when not able to be observed.