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.
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.