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50 stranger abductions in a year? You're off by a factor of close to 1,000.
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As the article points out in the first paragraph, there were 115 stereotypical kidnappings in 1999, which was closer to the definition of abduction that I was using, and closer to the definition that most people seem to use when they use the term informally. If you broaden the definition to include any instance when the child is briefly detained, then of course you're going to increase the number practically without limit.
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And because more men than women are perpetrators, by a large margin, it's understandable that people are more wary of strange men than strange women.
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I understand it too, I'm just pointing out that it is completely and utterly irrational.