{"id":572,"date":"2009-01-27T18:32:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T23:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forthelost.wordpress.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:15:23","slug":"middle-eastern-abductions-our-site-the-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/middle-eastern-abductions-our-site-the-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Eastern abductions: our site, the reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the For the Lost web page is the excellent essay by Meaghan Good, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/myth.html\">The Middle Eastern Abduction Myth.<\/a> It is still unfortunate that the myth that most parental abductors are Middle Eastern males persists. I was curious how this applied to our site specifically. What percentage of cases possibly involve the Middle East, and do the gender ratios seem unbalanced?<\/p>\n<p>For this I looked at all 375 cases on the site. The only ones included in this sample were ones taken or possibly in the following countries: Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Qatar, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. While Iran is technically a Persian nation and not a Middle Eastern one it is considered as such by most of the population and thus it has been included. Turkey was excluded for being considered a European nation and both Afghanistan and Pakistan were excluded for being Asian nations. Twenty three cases met this criteria. Of those, seventeen involved fathers and six involved mothers. So while it appears that fathers are more common abductors amongst children taken to Middle Eastern countries, the total of children taken to them is a small amount compared to the whole picture.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the For the Lost web page is the excellent essay by Meaghan Good, The Middle Eastern Abduction Myth. It is still unfortunate that the myth that most parental abductors are Middle Eastern males persists. I was curious how this applied to our site specifically. What percentage of cases possibly involve the Middle East, and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-haseeb-memorial-pages","category-family-abductions","category-opinion","category-website-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30044,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/30044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}