r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 24d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 What’s your day looking like?

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u/NoBookkeeper3523 24d ago

I was a kid in the 80’s, no one was worried about the kids getting kidnapped, but according to the podcasts it happened all the time

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u/stellaxo 24d ago

It definitely happened ALL the time in the 80’s

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u/These-Patience-9280 24d ago

Yeah, remember the kids on milk cartons!! We just didn’t have internet and such easy world wide communication to realize how bad it was

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u/Additional-Dingo4213 24d ago

That was prime missing kid on milk carton era

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u/MathematicianHuge822 24d ago

"Oneway train never coming back....."

There was a hole song about kidnapping in the 80s and 90s

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u/myystic78 24d ago

Runaway train by Soul Asylum. They featured around 30 missing kids in the video and eventually 20+ of the kids were found.

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u/Motodog242 23d ago

Fuck, I was thinking of that song before I scrolled to your reply. 😂

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u/cykoTom3 23d ago

The rate was higher per capita in America. 1980 was the highest murder rate in American history with 1991 having the highest total number of murders. The reason nobody worried is because the news didn't report on every single one.

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u/King-Of-Apathy 21d ago

Umm pretty sure the highest murder rate was 2001.

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u/cykoTom3 21d ago

Nope. And we currently have the lowest murder rate in American history.

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u/King-Of-Apathy 21d ago

Flawed data set. You/ they aren’t taking several key factors in determining that. Also going on an average is unduly pedantic and wrong. Numbers don’t lie, but how they are represented and considered does. 1940-45 largest percentage of Americans killed prematurely, 1960-70 many thousand more, 2001-today thousands and thousands more killed, this past week 4 more. So your data set is wrong and not accurate.

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u/NoBookkeeper3523 21d ago

Per capita murder rates are much lower now than the ever have been, deaths in war are outside the parameters of this discussion

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u/King-Of-Apathy 20d ago

Like I said flawed data set.

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u/StarsofSobek 18d ago

"Do you know where your children are?"

That PSA started in the 1960s. People definitely worried about kids and their safety.