Looking to cross the border in early October

rocmoc wrote:

qtla9111 wrote:
How many Americans have disappeared in the U.S.? Thousands. How many American children have been murdered in the last year just because they were there?

750,000 children disappear each year in the USA. This is a fact that can be found with an easy search of Google. I didn't believe it when I heard it on a TV New Channel so went to the internet for the Truth. I was shocked to fine that they had in fact reported correctly. So I went one step further in wanting to know what the birth and death rates were in the USA. 2.4 mil in new births and 1 mil in deaths. So half of our net population increase in the USA disappears each year.

rocmoc n AZ/Mexico

The last comprehensive study (from 1999) puts the figure closer to 800,000. And that is the number of "reported" missing children. But I believe you imply more than is there.

From that 1999 study National Estimate of Missing Children

Fundamentally, whether a child is “missing” depends on the knowledge and state of mind of the child’s caretaker, rather than the child’s actual condition or circumstance. From the caretaker’s point of view, the child is not where the caretaker expects the child to be, the caretaker does not know the child’s location, and these circumstances raise concern about the child’s well-being. Despite this concern, a missing child may not be in any peril whatsoever, as in the case where the child and parent have had a miscommunication about the time the child is expected to arrive home.

Looking at their data, 200,000 were abducted by family members - custody issues being the primary factor. The two serious categories: 58,000 were abducted by non-family members and the 115 "stereotypical” kidnappings. The latter are the ones we hear about in the national press.

According to Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, "More than 99 percent of children reported missing in America in recent years have come home."

Tom