Two-thirds of Australian fathers would think twice before approaching a child in distress in public over fears they would be labelled a predator, new research shows. The survey conducted to coincide with the launch of Skynanny.net, a GPS tracking device for children, found that 45 percent of fathers said they would be reluctant to help a child, unless the child was in great distress and action was needed. And 23 percent of dads would not help lost children under any circumstance. Parenting researcher Dr Justin Coulson said this reaction was common. Skynanny.net inventor Jason Petch (pictured), who was abducted as a six year old, said he was inspired to create the device after he lost his daughter Lucy (pictured) at the beach when she was two
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Two thirds of Aussie dads would think twice before approaching a child in distress in public over fears of being labelled a predator
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A survey found 23% of fathers would not help lost children under any circumstance
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It's been conducted to coincide with the launch of Skynanny.net, a GPS tracking device for kids
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The device is carried on the child and links an app, which can be downloaded to phones
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