Old heads will remember this. When the board started, we were digging on national missing children numbers, and IIRC, the last year of reports was 2018.

The NCMEC and the FBI had very different numbers, 800,000 and 400,000 reported annually.

That is just reported…

So let's be super conservative and say 90% are found, return, or nothing nefarious was at play. That still means that around 40,000 to 80,000 kids are reported and stay missing annually in the US alone. And again that does not include the unreported, or adults.

At least a football stadium (and perhaps as many as 10 or more!) worth of children dissappear annually in this

country based on their own reporting.

The problem anon still has with this is that anon has never once heard a family, school, coworker, friend of a friend, church, etc in 50 years of life having had the experience of a child go missing.

Have you?

Additionally, anon has never heard of a school, city, church, club, team, etc welcoming home someone who was rescued or escaped from being taken.

Being that these numbers are reported to be so huge, where are the missing being taken from? Be mindful undocumented peoples are not reported, and these numbers are from pre2018.

It would seem to anon that all of us would have a story of knowing so and so who's kid was abducted, ran away, or otherwise disappeared, but no.

Likewise for any stories of successful returns.

Seems fucky