Questions: Family & Friends

Over the years child abductions have increased.

I'm my parents' only child but they actually trusted me very much. They saw as very advanced for my age. I was never overprotected. They let me cross the streets, walk to the bus stop alone and left home alone for the first time at age 8. Then at age 9, I was already walking home to school and vice versa; 30 minutes away.

Age 10; my friend and I took a public transportation to a different part of our city and mall... far from home and our curfew sometimes got extended to 8 pm. The only time our parents picked us up was after a movie finished late at 11:30 pm.

By age 12, it was my first sleepover at my friend's after a mixed party ended late. Then at age 16, I went to a beach in Cancún, México with friends (4 girls and 2 guys) for a whole week... it was spring break.

Though, nothing bad ever happened to me. But would you say my parents were naive?

I don't wish that on not even my worst enemy. That has to be horrible. Among these ways to lose a child, which would you say is the worst, most impacting:

- Any accident/sudden death (SIDS, hear attack, drowning in pool, auto accident, explosion, gas inhalation etc)

- Disease/illness (meningitis, cancer, virus, etc)

- Suicide (they hanged themselves after getting bullied, cheated on, etc)

- Murder (beaten or shot to death, stabbed, pushed towards a cliff, etc)

- Life sacrifice (they got in front of danger, died saving you or others)

- Animal attack/mauling (pitbull, shark, bear, etc)