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This seems like a bit of an urban myth? Or at least hugely overblown. How often does this really happen?
by elliekelly 5y ago
This seems like a bit of an urban myth? Or at least hugely overblown. How often does this really happen?
- iso1631 5y ago437,283 American children were removed from their parents last year. Meanwhile fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year between 2010–2017 Now of course CPS handle actual cases of child neglect in that 430k, but it certainly seems that the most likely people to take a child are either 1) The other parent 2) CPS 3) Death from Road traffic, Firearms, Suffocation/Drowning, Drug overdoses And way down the list is abduction
- monocasa 5y agoIt was a several months long ordeal when a neighbor reported me and my siblings playing "unsupervised" in our own front lawn when I was a kid. Looking back on it, the caseworker was very obviously trying to seperate us from our parents. The kicker: I was old enough to be a babysitter at the time.