"I think there's been historically an instinct to hide the extent of the problem, so as not to scare parents," Mr. Levy said.

The media scaring parents from letting their kids out to have a proper childhood because a paedo will get them.

I wonder, however, having now watched the show, that it may be its impenetrable Japanese-ness is what really scares parents.

We have to avoid scaring parents into restrictive patterns, subtracting pleasure from mealtimes, and casting blame.

The combination of exploding glass and hot butter had stung my daughter, not seriously, but enough to scare both children and parents as well.

A. There's a lot of misinformation out there scaring parents.

"Those consultants are hyping this," and scaring parents who want their children at one of those schools into buying their services, she said.

Then their parents use him to scare other parents.

Unfortunately, they chose to wage a divisive campaign of fear-mongering and distortion to scare both students and parents.

I don't want to scare parents.