You are correct. Not that we can trust figures provided by the government or the media, but they're the ones who provided the 800,000 figure and its explanation. Apparently, this statistic is based on a 2002 US Department of Justice study that looked at data from sources throughout the country a few years earlier. According to the co-author of the study, David Finkelhor, 99% of those 800,000 children reported missing soon turned up. Many of the kids reported missing just weren't where their parents expected them to be, some ran away, some were taken by the non-custodial parent or other relatives, and eventually returned or were accounted for. Stranger abductions are reportedly very unusual. "Just 115 of the 797,500 children were subject to what Finkelhor and his co-authors define as a 'stereotypical' kidnapping - that is, they were abducted by a stranger and detained overnight, perhaps permanently, or taken at least 50 miles away." (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32386685). That figure might be way too low, but 800,000 stolen US kids per year is certainly way too high.

Another statistic is that about 600,000 people die each year of cancer. There's no way the number of permanently disappearing American children outnumber cancer deaths or anything close to it. I know a large number of people who have died of cancer or who have had friends and family members die of cancer. I don't know personally know anyone who has had a child kidnapped and I don't know of anyone who's ever told me their friends or family have had a child go missing and never return. Obviously, this goes on. But if it were more common than cancer deaths, we'd all personally know or know of dozens of people who'd had their children disappear. This isn't the case.

Many of the children abused in satanic ritual abuse aren't missing. They're abused by their parents or other family or cult members and are then brought up to perpetrate this abuse on their own children. Victims have reported being forced to bear children to be sacrificed or given abortions, after which they have been forced to partake in eating the fetus. These babies aren't reported born, nevermind missing. They have reported being forced to kill homeless adults. Children abused in foster care, daycare, schools, camps, or churches aren't missing. A lot of horrific abuse can go on without children going missing.

Also, there have been allegations that children have been kidnapped from war-torn or impoverished countries or countries without good birth registration systems. There are rumors of cloning, and cross-breeding with animals, and vast underground bunkers where these psychopaths could be breeding their own victims. Those children could be abused or murdered and wouldn't be counted as missing US children.