A child goes missing every 40 seconds in the U.S, over 2,100 per day. In excess of 800,000 children are reported missing each year. Another 500,000 go missing without ever being reported.
U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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How many kids do you know of that went missing and weren’t found? If 1.3 million kids went missing a year and most weren’t found we would know of a bunch of families who had missing kids or see posters everywhere. Most missing kids are runaways, family disputes and misunderstandings. Once I went to the school and “I guess” reported my daughter missing. A cop got involved. Long story short, she got on the wrong bus and the school said the buses were all empty, they were wrong. We are all on the same team and I’m not trying to be combative but…