I didn't see a lot of hyperbole on her site.
Currently on the front page of her site:
�What if??� doesn�t take into account probability, or even reality. It just builds big, bright, horrible possibilities and projects them, Power Point-like, into the conversation: �Ha! You tell me not to worry, but LOOK at this! This COULD happen! What if it DOES? Then what, huh? You�re going to say you�re sorry? THAT�S NOT GOING TO MAKE THINGS ANY BETTER! I simply will NOT allow this, that or the other to (possibly) happen to my child!�Oops! I'd better not worry about anything that could happen to my child, or I'm one of those stupid "what if" parents.
I've seen that site, and even moreso her acolytes, present statistics in misleading ways as well. Nearer to the start of her proselytization, as I remember, she pushed pretty heavily a single statistic about deaths from child abductions, as if that were the only bad result to worry about from implementing idea. IIRC other misleading aggregate statistics that I've seen presented, either by her or her followers, relate to abductions and other subsets of possible bad circumstances, or focusing heavily on the fact that most child rapes occur close to home or are committed by family friends or members-- as if the rest of them are negligible somehow. I also recall aggregate statistics presented regarding the relative accident safety of walking to school vs. driving, which included general highway crash statistics.
In fact, if you review DOJ and other statistics, it becomes apparent that a fair number (about 1/3 IIRC) of all
reported child rapes occur when a child is walking through neighborhoods, next to fields, etc. not immediately adjacent to the home. Those are conveniently discarded by free-range advocates. Nor do they discuss the scope of unreported child rapes, etc.
Her basic idea boils down to a sanity check to avoid hysteria, which is nothing original to her AFAIK, and which is of course a good idea. I'm just giving my other 1 cent's worth; we don't need to fully debate the issues here.
