Unravel Child Abduction Facts

One minute she's there and the next she's gone. It is indeed every parent's worst nightmare not to know where their child is, or what's happened to her.

Following are the various types of Child Abduction

family kidnapping

By far the most common kind of child abduction is parental child abduction and often occurs when the parents separate or begin divorce proceedings. When relationships break down, a minority of parents cannot face the prospect of living apart from their child or even of sharing the care of the children with their ex-partner. Occasionally, a parent will decide to take the law into their own hands and bring their children to live with them without the permission of the other parent or the courts - an act called parental child abduction.

Acquaintance kidnapping

Victimizes more females than males, occurs primarily at outdoor locations, victimizes both teenagers and school-age children, is associated with sexual assaults in the case of girl victims and robberies in the case of boy victims (although not exclusively so), and is the type of kidnapping most likely to involve the use of a firearm.

Stranger kidnapping

Perhaps the most feared (although not the most common) kind of abduction is removal by a stranger. The stereotypical version of stranger abduction is the classic form of "kidnapping." Stranger kidnapping victimizes more females than males, occurs primarily at outdoor locations, victimizes both teenagers and school-age children, is associated with sexual assaults in the case of girl victims and robberies in the case of boy victims (although not exclusively so), and is the type of kidnapping most likely to involve the use of a firearm.

International child abduction

When a child is removed across an international frontier either having been taken from the care of such a person, or having been removed without the consent of such person, then this constitutes an international child abduction.

International Child Abduction is not new. Reasons behind increases in international child abduction include greater numbers of relationships between partners of different nationalities and easier cheaper travel facilities and a high divorce rate.

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