According to David Eberhard, chief psychiatrist at the emergency psychiatric ward in Stockholm, our brains have a tendency to overestimate two types of events that may occur to our children: those that have disastrous consequences and those that are out of our control. Both types encompass kidnapping. No matter how extremely rare it is, our brains are simply not that good at judging this type of risk. And fear is a powerful thing. When stories about child abductions lead the evening news, it is easy to believe that the same thing is going to happen to your child.
