[researcher88]

Child abduction by strangers is extremely rare and around 100 per year in the US although that may be an outdated number. The one stat I just checked said 515 stranger abductions between 1990 and 1995. And that was when free range children were far more common than today.

[abandonliberty]

Overprotective parents will claim that's a result of their actions.

Also, as less parents allow their children to roam, the risk to the remaining ones increase as there are a smaller pool of children readily abductible.

Meanwhile 3 million children a year have substantiated reports of abuse (50% of reported) https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse-statistics/