The CBS evening "news", although not covering the latest on this story, DID include that there are more than 300,000 abductions a year in U.S. [correction: that number is the number of children reported missing, rather than abducted. The reported missing has an even higher estimated number, but the number who are actually abducted is far lower]
The overwhelming majority of those kids are found and were never in danger. In fact, they realized how misleading these these reports were and have changed the language about how they talk about these things.
Because missing child incidents can include very benign incidents like the child went to a friend's house and didn't tell you or the child wandered away at the mall or the child twisted their ankle on the way home from school.
When talking about abductions they now use the term "stereotypical kidnapping." For ages under 21there's around 350 of this a year. That's the average since 2010.
The page you link to says there 296 in 2022. " Abducted by non-custodial parent" is the language they use.
That's one tenth of 1 percent of missing kids. See page 2 of the link you sent.
They also mentioned 546,000 reports of someone missing was entered and 543,000 reports were purged ....which means the person is no longer missing.
Most kidnappings of children are by a parent during a custody dispute, not by strangers.
That is more than 1% of the population / men, women & children or about 3% of the children. Multiplying that by 18 years means there's about a 50% chance that any child will have a missing amber alert at some point in their life. wow!
The CBS evening "news", although not covering the latest on this story, DID include that there are more than 300,000 abductions a year in U.S. [correction: that number is the number of children reported missing, rather than abducted. The reported missing has an even higher estimated number, but the number who are actually abducted is far lower]
I don't think that can be true
That would be like a thousand amber alerts every day
But those do not equal abductions.
The overwhelming majority of those kids are found and were never in danger. In fact, they realized how misleading these these reports were and have changed the language about how they talk about these things.
Because missing child incidents can include very benign incidents like the child went to a friend's house and didn't tell you or the child wandered away at the mall or the child twisted their ankle on the way home from school.
When talking about abductions they now use the term "stereotypical kidnapping." For ages under 21there's around 350 of this a year. That's the average since 2010.
The page you link to says there 296 in 2022. " Abducted by non-custodial parent" is the language they use.
That's one tenth of 1 percent of missing kids. See page 2 of the link you sent.
They also mentioned 546,000 reports of someone missing was entered and 543,000 reports were purged ....which means the person is no longer missing.
Most kidnappings of children are by a parent during a custody dispute, not by strangers.
...seems like it here in ne texas some days...
but they have a bad habit of spamming the same amber alert until you stop paying attention, so take me with a grain of salt...
Yeah, no way that is true
That is more than 1% of the population / men, women & children or about 3% of the children. Multiplying that by 18 years means there's about a 50% chance that any child will have a missing amber alert at some point in their life. wow!