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A number of other numbers, that puts this into even more perspective, are missing: 1) How many children walk or bike to school every day? ~10 million? 2) How
by Confusion 17y ago
A number of other numbers, that puts this into even more perspective, are missing:
1) How many children walk or bike to school every day? ~10 million?
2) How many of those 115 were kidnapped while on their way to or from school? Half?
3) How many of the answer to 2) were kidnapped while they were on their way to or from school alone? Half again?
- alxp 17y agoAlso: How many children were kidnapped by a non-custodial parent who grabbed them by picking them up from school?
- designtofly 17y agoYour point does not change the numbers in question. "About 115 children are kidnapped by strangers." A non-custodial parent would not be a stranger.
- Confusion 17y agoNo, but it does put the number in perspective. The amount of kidnappings by non-custodial parents is in the 100000's a year.
- neilk 17y agoI have no idea whether non-custodial parents are primarily to blame -- these stats cited by ABC News just say family members or parents. "203,900 kids were abducted in 1999 by family members or parents. Approximately, 58,200 were 'non-family' abductions — only 115 were defined as the frightening kidnappings by strangers." -- http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91365&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91365&page=1 Unless almost all of the family cases are non-custodial parents, your claim of hundreds of thousands seems a bit exaggerated. Some of these must be custodial parents, uncles, grandparents, siblings, and so on. I think 'non-family' means acquaintances, minus the 115 cases of abduction by a stranger.
- tc 17y agoOne non-profit that works in this space estimates that 78% of the "family member or parent" abductions are due to a non-custodial parent. That would put the total around 159k, which puts the parent poster in the right order of magnitude. http://childfindofamerica.org/Information.htm http://childfindofamerica.org/Information.htm
- martincmartin 17y agoCitation needed. BTW, in addition to wikipedia's contribution to society of a free encyclopedia, I think this phrase is a great contribution. As Gerry Sussman says, "once you can name a spirit, you have power over it."
- tc 17y agoCitation not needed, because this is a conversation, not an encyclopedia article, and he gave a rough order of magnitude estimate which happens to be reasonably correct. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/the-cost-of-fearing-strangers/ http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/the-cost-of... http://childfindofamerica.org/Information.htm http://childfindofamerica.org/Information.htm