Pedophiles make me sick to my stomach, but I would never put a chip on my child to help me protect them against pedophiles.

Someone arguing for the RFID chip would say that the benefits outweigh the risks. I would say not. You cannot create a generation of children who have never known freedom of movement for the sake of protecting the few that may get kidnapped by crazies.

Bad things happen everywhere and tagging our children is not an answer to the problems. If someone wants to kidnap your kids, they will. You have to teach your kids to be vigilant and street smart.

If RFID chip was to become widely used by parents, it would only put their kids in more danger. Tags can be detected and removed. Just like when you like to speed to buy a speed trap detector, if you are a kidnaper and you know that kids are tagged, you would get a tag detector.

This whole fascination about knowing where are kids are at every waking moment is not doing them a service. Teach them well, trust them, let them know you trust them and tell them to be aware of their surroundings and they should be fine.

Well said. Safety is ruining childhood, my coworkers' kids are not even allowed to play outside most of the time.

While I ride the fence on the chip issue as someone who travels and lives internationally I do agree that some parents are way too controling over their children's lives that it is no wonder that they end up shooting everyone in school.

My kids played on a 250000 acre Spanish land grant for hours but always knew to be home by dark. they could have been killed by much worse things than a pedophile, like snakes scorpions, wild javalina, rutting male deer. I think we raised them well enough to cope in that and any other environment without needing to rely on us continually and us being so controling that it strangled their freedom and the chance to develope independent coping skills.

but kids do need a certain amount of freedom to grow. i think you have to make a decision on how much to limit your kids movements based on knowing your environment and knowing your kid.

i am sick of hearing about teenagers getting kidnapped, raped, killed because for some reason they were out by themselves late at night. and i'm not talking eighteen years old here. i'm saying 14 or 15. even younger. this is in new york city and anything can happen to anyone. knowing that, it seems very ignorant that some of the natives refuse to change their living style to suit the situation. it's one thing to be callous and unsafe themselves, but when they pass that on their children, well....

when i was a kid in the burbs, my mom would tell me that i could play anywhere within a certain area in our neighborhood. this was because there wasn't much traffic, she knew the neighbors, people were out and about.... things that make it safe for a kid to explore, you know? and when it got dark, we had to go inside. (or at least be in someone's backyard and check in beforehand).

if we'd been in the city, i'm sure she would have been more strict. because there are more dangers out there. i'm not saying we should overprotect our kids. but if you know your kid is not able to be rational enough to keep themselves safe yet (and this has nothing to do with age and everything to do with maturity) or not rational enough to not do something stupid just because everyone else is, then i think you need to keep extra watch on them.

When there was a huge media/parent blow up about the rate of kids getting kidnapped and the whole attitude that "it's happening so much more often now than before" the FBi made a statement that kids are NOT getting kidnapped any more often than what used to happen, it's just that the cases are getting sensationalized and spashed across the media.

It used to be you only heard about the missing children cases that happened in or near your community, now anyone with a TV can hear about "Any Lost Annie" in Portugal/UK/Florida/Utah/Clifo­rnia/Brazil going missing.