<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c27f770-ecff-485c-ab23-d73c329b9d6d/602F6ECA-0C5F-4544-BE53-8251C3AFB6AA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6720661.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6720661.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6720661.stm"><P><FONT size="2">The risk of abduction remains tiny. In Britain, there are now half as many children killed every year in road accidents as there were in 1922 - despite a more than 25-fold increase in traffic. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">In 1970, 80% of primary school-age children made the journey from home to school on their own. It was what you did. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="208" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD width="5"><IMG width="5" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" /></TD><TD class="sibtbg"><DIV> <DIV class="mva"> <IMG width="24" height="13" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif" /> <B>You might get kidnapped or taken by a stranger</B> <IMG width="23" vspace="0" height="13" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif" /><BR clear="all" /> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="mva"> <DIV>Jojo Roberts, age eight</DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="o"> <IMG width="203" vspace="2" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif" /> </DIV> <DIV class="miiib"> <DIV class="arr"> <A href="http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=6521&edition=1" class=""><B>Have your say on study</B></A> </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></P><P> </P><P> <FONT size="2">Today the figure is under 9%. Escorting children is now the norm. </FONT></P><P><FONT size="2"> We are rearing our children in captivity - their habitat shrinking almost daily. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">In 1970 the average nine-year-old girl would have been free to wander 840 metres from her front door. By 1997 it was 280 metres.</FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/602F6ECA-0C5F-4544-BE53-8251C3AFB6AA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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