Honestly, this is not a sign of anything bad really. These programs are very popular and have a lot of viewers otherwise they would not be running as a successful series for all these years.

Many people can relate to feeling powerless, even how children "are" powerless in not only an adult world but that of interacting with other children as well.

I think that the attraction is the overall "knowledge" that is taking place in these programs and the different solutions that are in each story line. Often a comfort can come from just the fact that a program is showing an "awareness" as well as the fact that there "are" people out there that have jobs that specialize in the kind of victims that are in these different story lines.

That "Law and order SVU" that has been on for years does cover a lot of different scenarios as well as understanding the "victims" in these different scenarios they present. It is clear that they do research of real events and they use some of the things from these different "real life cases" they come across.

It is just very "human" to be attracted to different scenarios that deal with some darker issues that take place in humanity.

OE