What are the real dangers? The answer depends on whom you ask and what you're measuring. Far fewer children die from unintentional injuries - car and bicycle accidents, drowning, fires - than was the case 20 years ago, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. U.S. Justice Department reports show that crime against children - along with violent crime in general - is down. And the scenario that gives parents the greatest terror - abduction and murder by a stranger - happened about 50 times in 1999 (the latest year for which there are Justice Department statistics). That's once for every 1.5 million kids.