Kidnapping and concealment causes great trauma to an abducted child and the left-behind parent.
Family members, usually a parent, abduct over 203,000 children (78 percent of all missing children) in the United States each year. Abducted children are cut off from family, friends and community and forced into a secretive, nomadic lifestyle. 1Parents trying to find the missing child are forced into emotionally and economically exhausting dealings with a foreign and sometimes unsympathetic legal system.
