When my 10-year-old son recently encountered a young adult making rude comments in a game of “Minecraft,” he and his friends told the interloper to leave their “world.” When he didn’t, my son exited ...

SPOKANE, Wash -- We used to warn kids about strangers in cars, but now, rather than a van driving down the street, the stranger danger is in the palm of their hands. New social media platforms are ...

Of all the public service campaigns embraced throughout the years, that which seems to have made one of the more lasting impressions is also among the more misguided: Don't talk to strangers. The ...

Growing up, I was taught to never talk to strangers. I was warned about the dubious man driving a white, windowless van who coaxes children inside by saying he was sent to bring them home. I was told ...

Screens and pandemic quarantine have atrophied young people’s ability to connect. Move over, ‘stranger danger.’ Gen Z is contending with an actual threat: isolation. WATCH: Ideas contributor Joe ...

A flaw in the Facebook Messenger Kids app allowed children to enter group chats with strangers, according to Consumer Reports. Typically, in order for a child to chat with someone on Facebook's ...

It's not the guns. It's not TV. It's not movies featuring enormous amounts of gratuitous violence. It's not even Jerry Springer or all the other moronic, lowest common denominator talk shows available ...