Statistics

Realistically over a million children go missing each year. Statistically, over 850,000 cases of missing children are reported! Unfortunately, not all of these children are recovered.

There are five classifications of missing children:

1. Many children are taken by "custodial or non-custodial" parents.
2. Children are categorized as "runaways", when the child leaves home by choice;
3. "Thrown-aways" - the child is told to leave home, or "Get out!".
4. There are victims of what used to be referred to as "Stranger Abductions"* A witness sees the child’s abduction, or evidence points to that conclusion. The term ‘stranger’ has been reclassified as "non-family type".
5. The final classification is "Missing-Endangered". This is when a child disappears - vanishes - without a trace as to what happened.

**Children are told about the dangers of going with someone they don’t know, but a child will innocently trust an adult, even though they have never before seen that adult, or only met the adult once prior. In the eyes of a child, a ‘stranger’ is usually someone who is big and ugly; almost like a monster.

 

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