According to our research and experience, out of the half a million children that go missing every year in the United States,
nearly all of them are found. That’s 97.8%. So, half a million children go missing, but nearly all of them are also found.
When most people think about missing children, they imagine children being lured into white vans. But if a father or mother takes a child without permission, and they don’t have custody, that’s considered a missing child, and the vast majority of missing kids are due to family abductions. There are more than 3,000 attempted snatchings per year, and more than 90% of those are runaways or parental abductions.
Wondering how many missing children are found each year? Keep reading to find out the percent of kids returned to their parents each year.
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