Posted: 11/1/2008 12:54:37 PM EDT
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There's a commercial I keep seeing about missing kids. While I believe missing kids are an important thing, and teaching kids to be safe is important, I'm not sure the research on this commercial is quite right.
Basically, it states that an average of 2100 children per day are reporting missing every year. I did the math, and are there really 766,500 kids going missing per year. Is it really that much of a crisis (obviously a missing kid is a crisis, but this commercial makes it to be an enormously common occurence.)? Or are they using VPC/HCI/Brady math? |
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There's a commercial I keep seeing about missing kids. While I believe missing kids are an important thing, and teaching kids to be safe is important, I'm not sure the research on this commercial is quite right. Basically, it states that an average of 2100 children are reporting missing every year. I did the math, and are there really 766,500 kids going missing per year. Is it really that much of a crisis (obviously a missing kid is a crisis, but this commercial makes it to be an enormously common occurence.)? Or are they using VPC/HCI/Brady math? I don;t understand your math. |
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There's a commercial I keep seeing about missing kids. While I believe missing kids are an important thing, and teaching kids to be safe is important, I'm not sure the research on this commercial is quite right. Basically, it states that an average of 2100 children per day are reporting missing every year. I did the math, and are there really 766,500 kids going missing per year. Is it really that much of a crisis (obviously a missing kid is a crisis, but this commercial makes it to be an enormously common occurence.)? Or are they using VPC/HCI/Brady math? I don;t understand your math. Sorry––momentary tard moment.. 2100 kids per day. |
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There's a commercial I keep seeing about missing kids. While I believe missing kids are an important thing, and teaching kids to be safe is important, I'm not sure the research on this commercial is quite right. Basically, it states that an average of 2100 children are reporting missing every year. I did the math, and are there really 766,500 kids going missing per year. Is it really that much of a crisis (obviously a missing kid is a crisis, but this commercial makes it to be an enormously common occurence.)? Or are they using VPC/HCI/Brady math? I don;t understand your math. Probably meant every day. |
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If 2100 kids go missing every year how the hell can you "do the math"....there is no freaking math to do!!! The number is 2100 kids!!
Edit after the update  .
How many kids are reported missing and were actually just out screwing around somewhere. My parents reported my sis missing at a school function (she was like 5). It turns out, she had accidentally locked herself in a closet in one of the classrooms  .
EPIC FAILURE .
I don't recall very well, but I think a police officer may have found her. |
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Just because that many are reported missing that doesn't mean that that many disappear or stay missing.
A bunch could be runaways, "misplaced" or lost for a day or two. Also the age of the "children" could be expanded up to 21 or 25 years old like the Brady Bunch and VPC have been known to do. The world is a big place with alot of people, 2100 children per day wouldn't supprise me. |
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http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2816 The U.S. Department of Justice reports: 797,500 children (younger than 18) were reported missing in a one-year period of time studied resulting in an average of 2,185 children being reported missing each day. 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions. 58,200 children were the victims of non-family abductions. 115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. (These crimes involve someone the child does not know or someone of slight acquaintance, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently. Research has shown that between 40 and 150 incidents of child abduction murder occur each year, which is less than one half of one percent of the murders committed nationally. Statistics show that the first three hours are the most crucial. 76.2 percent of abducted children who are murdered are dead within three hours of the abduction. |