Parents Worry About Wrong Things

Based on surveys Barnes collected, the top five worries of parents are, in order :

• 1. Kidnapping
• 2. School snipers
• 3. Terrorists
• 4. Dangerous strangers
• 5. Drugs

But how do children really get hurt or killed?

• 1. Car accidents
• 2. Homicide (usually committed by a person who knows the child, not a stranger)
• 3. Abuse
• 4. Suicide
• 5. Drowning

Question (from Sisyphus): Why such a big discrepancy between worries and reality?