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Parental Abduction

When Parents Kidnap Their Own

By Carma Haley

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The Missing Children's Registry of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada has developed an overall profile of parental abductions. The profile was constructed to assist those whose child has been abducted by a parent and includes facts such as:

  • Either parent, mother or father, will abduct his or her own child.
  • Mothers tend to abduct children after a court order is completed while fathers do so before the court order.
  • Mothers who abduct their children will keep the children for a longer period of time then fathers who abduct.
  • The "average" age range for parents who abduct their child is 28 to 40 years of age.
  • The fathers who abduct their children are likely to have employment while the mothers who abduct are more likely to be unemployed.
  • The majority of children who are abducted by their own parent but kept within the United States are between 3 and 7 years of age, but children who are taken out of the country tend to be 8 years of age or older.
  • Both male and female children are abducted equally.
  • The majority of children abducted by their own parent are done so from the home and not from areas such as a babysitters, daycare or schoolyard.
  • The abductor, both mother and father, typically makes contact within 48 hours of abducting the child to inform the searcing parent of the child's well being.

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Parental Abduction by ncmec.eu on 11/11/2009 02:51AM

Your readers may be interested to learn that most publicized cases of alleged parental abduction do not end in conviction, at least in part because the charges are often based on one parent's fraudulent statements to prosecutors. In addition, fingerprinting does not help solve child abduction. It only helps to identify dead bodies. It is extremely rare for a child abduction to end in the child's death, especially if the child is taken by a parent. Finally it bears mentioning that many of the children who are advertised by major child welfare organizations as 'missing' are not actually missing. Unfortunately these groups have a self-serving financial interest in inflating their statistics. The location of many of the children we see advertised on posters is actually known. These are cases of missing child fraud, which are cataloged on our website. Thank you. Michael ncmec.eu

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