Parenting & Family Quote by Jon Porter

“Epidemic” is doing the heavy lifting here: it turns a messy set of crimes, risks, and moral panics into a single, contagious threat that feels both everywhere and urgent. Jon Porter’s line is built like a perimeter alarm. “Following our children” supplies the stalking imagery; it’s not just danger, it’s pursuit. Then comes the methodical inventory of spaces - computers, parks, workplaces, schools - a rhetorical sweep that maps fear onto daily life. The genius (and the problem) of that list is how it collapses distinctions: online grooming and a stranger in a park and misconduct at work become one roaming menace. The listener doesn’t have to weigh probabilities; the sentence tells you the threat is ambient.

The intent is political as much as protective. By placing predators in “our” spaces, Porter casts the public as a single family under siege, inviting unity behind tougher enforcement, surveillance, registry expansion, or school- and internet-focused legislation. The subtext is that ordinary safeguards and existing institutions are insufficient; if danger is this ubiquitous, extraordinary measures start to sound like common sense.

Context matters: this kind of language flourishes in periods when the internet is framed as a new frontier of harm and when high-profile abuse scandals prime voters to see predators as a hidden class. It’s a moral argument disguised as logistics. No individual case is named, because the point isn’t a case - it’s permission to treat the entire environment as suspicious, and to reward politicians who promise control over complexity.