{"id":2730,"date":"2010-04-10T19:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T00:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forthelost.wordpress.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:15:22","slug":"why-do-kids-go-missing-a-survey-with-all-the-wrong-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/10\/why-do-kids-go-missing-a-survey-with-all-the-wrong-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do kids go missing? A survey with all the wrong answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

During some google searches for several missing persons’ cases, I came across a web poll<\/a> that asked: “Why do you think kids go missing (excluding runaways)?” A reasonable question. Two of the potential answers were “Parent wants to get back at other parent” (the one I voted for) and “Parent feels they have rights” which both address the fact most missing kids are runaways and family abductions. Over forty percent of respondents, however, answered “Abductor wants sex with child” which is one of the least common reason kids vanish. And while approximately four thousand kids are abducted by a non-family member per year, I am sure the people who answered that were thinking of the stereotypical stranger abductor and not the person well known to the child as they most often are. The media’s dramatization of stranger abductions probably has a part in it. And of course no one wants to think of abductors as being people they know, and the mysterious stranger who does so is the most comforting thought. NCMEC has tried to reframe the issue of missing kids and points out stranger abductions are rare, but that gets little attention. Some do hear of a stranger abduction and then realize the true extent of the problem. Many people who heard of the case of Sean Goldman commented they had no idea how many parents abducted kids until they heard of his case. It’s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During some google searches for several missing persons’ cases, I came across a web poll that asked: “Why do you think kids go missing (excluding runaways)?” A reasonable question. Two of the potential answers were “Parent wants to get back at other parent” (the one I voted for) and “Parent feels they have rights” which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-abductions","category-non-family-abduction","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29859,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/29859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}