Citation:
Bennetts SK, Cooklin AR, Nicholson JM, Hackworth NJ, Green J, Zubrick SR, Crawford SB. ‘Stranger danger’, ‘abduction risks’ and ‘fear’: Media coverage of children's independent mobility and parental attitudes. Child Soc. 2022
Keywords:
Active transport; attitudes; child development; child health; mass media; parents
Abstract:
The media plays a powerful role in shaping health-related attitudes and behaviours. We investigated media reports about children's independent mobility (CIM) and associations with parental attitudes towards CIM. CIM-related media reports (newspaper, online, television) during a 3-month period were extracted from two databases.