There’s something about becoming a parent that seems to raise your paranoia quotient; it probably has a lot to do with becoming responsible for another human being’s safety and welfare–especially when that being lacks the years of experience, wisdom, and distrust that adults eventually accumulate. Of course, it doesn’t help when the evening news is rife with stories of child kidnappings. Whether rational or not, it is this primal fear of losing a child combined with propensity for the news to cover seemingly