The Urban Myth of the Babysitter

There are lots of stories at this time of girls being the victim of violent crime more broadly just because of being out in a world that seems hostile and dangerous. I have never found anything that suggests there's any kind of have you checked the children type of murder that ever happened anywhere. So it's like this period when the safety of suburbia is feeling very threatened. The babysitter because she's a young woman kind of taking on responsibility and being seen as someone who has to be both responsible and conscientious and also completely obedient to the grownups. It feels like the babysitter inevitably is the person who these urban myths tend to be about.