Child Abduction: How to Keep Your Child Safe

The Danger at Hand…Ensuring your child's safety from abduction is imperative. Many times a child's kidnapper is a child molester as well. Tougher laws may help, but ultimately, the responsibility of your child's safety rests in your hands. How do you know if you are doing all you can to keep your child safe? It is not enough to tell you child ‘Never talk to strangers.' In some cases, children are abducted by someone they know, whether it be a friend of the family or a family member. The key to keeping your child safe is in making sure they are ‘street smart' at every stage in their lives.Most of the time, parents emphasize to their children that they should be polite and respectful to others. Abductors know this and will try to instigate contact that seems perfectly innocent to the child. He may even offer to become their friend. Parents should make their children aware of this type of deception to keep them from becoming a victim.

One important point seems evident in children who have escaped being victims of abductions. Time and time again, the child RAN AWAY from the abductor. This is one of the most important things you can teach your child at any age. An abductor, like any criminal, wants an ‘easy mark.' The more difficult it is to abduct his victim, and the more attention the victim draws to the situation, the more likely the abductor will leave him alone.