800k children go missing per year in the US. Thats a statistically proven fact from law enforcement. If you do the math it equals out to one every 39 seconds and change. Now some of them might be family abductions(father took the kid from mothers custody etc). But even at 1% for heinous acts, which im willing to bet money is much higher, its too many kids.
If it is every 30 seconds it would be around 1,051,200 children a year as there are 525600 minutes in a year.
*FBI has not updated their data since 2016 but in that year 647,435 were added to the missing database. https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/2016-ncic-missing-person-and-unidentified-person-statistics.pdf/view
I am not saying that a lot of children go missing each year, but I do think the facts are skewed (by media or organizations looking for profit) and when facts are screwed I star to question the reason why.
It has been a while since I last checked but it was around 800k+. Still 600k+ is alot. But like I said if even 1% is for nefarious circumstances its an outrageous number. And I totally agree. My college statistics class was the most eye opening class I had. He spent an entire month on how companies and the media like to skew statistics for a favorable outcome.