Nothing is more silly than a statistic. Whoever knows if they are accurate? How can you tell? I don't think anyone will do the research to prove right or wrong. The people that spew research numbers know this, I think. It is likened in my mind, those statistics, to be as accurate as that other saying: "they say". You know, 'they say' that global warming is a fake....yada yada. "They say' it is supposed to rain tomorrow. "They say' that Joe Blow is guilty and a liar and a weirdo. That's what statistics mean to me.
a total of 258,115 child abductions per year, or a little over 700 per day average. Nearly four out of five are abductions by family members, usually over some disagreement about custody, and less than 1/20th of 1% of child abductions are the kind of criminal stranger abductions people most worry about. Anderson Cooper's analysis says that there are a total of 800,000 missing persons per year (more than 2,000 per day), with the other 540,000 being runaways and people kicked out of their homes by their families.
It's also worth noting that "About 99 percent were found within hours or days by usual law enforcement response." and "More than 7,000 children nationwide were missing for prolonged periods." -source - That means something like 20 US kids are kidnapped per day for prolonged periods.
