There Are Many Things We Can Do as Parents, and Things We Can Teach Our Kids, to Keep Them Safe
FACTS
There are different types of missing children. The largest group of missing children is those who are runaways. The children at greatest risk of injury or death are those children who are abducted by nonfamily. There are also family abductions usually done by the non-custodial parent or
another family member. Children also go missing when they become lost, injured or become disoriented and separated from a parent or caregiver.
According to Nismart-2 Research for the year 1999 there were 797,500 missing children during that year. Missing children has become such a nationally recognized problem that in 1984 the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was created as the clearinghouse federally mandated by the U.S. Congress to assist families and law enforcement in cases of missing and exploited children.
TIPS TO KEEP YOUR CHILD SAFE
Here are some tips that may help to keep your child safe. Assure your child of your love and that you will never stop loving them or wanting them. Often in noncustodial parent abductions the child is told that the custodial parent does not love them any more and does not want them. If you have often assured them that this could never happen they are more likely to question the validity of this statement.
Make it a strict safety rule that your child either is with you or play using the buddy system. When playing outside, they must always be with at least one other child. Although it is no guarantee that abductions won’t happen when your child is with another child, it is less likely. Should the unthinkable happen and an abduction happen when your child is with another child, if that child is old enough to understand and remember details of the abductor then they may be of assistance in giving clues to who did the abduction. Another child can also let an adult know of the abduction and give information concerning what happened and where it happened.
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