David Hausdorff helps to raise awareness for missing children

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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 26, 2011 -- David Hausdorff who raised awareness for Missing Children through groundbreaking Children Safety Schools will address new public concerns on how to Protect Our Most Valuable Assets. His pioneering efforts with such law enforcement agencies including the Unites States Secret Service, The FBI and the highest levels of government were revolutionary in educating the public.

Missing Children Facts

It is important that children learn how to recognize differences in their surroundings, especially when something just doesn’t look right.” This can be done though the presentation of different skills and practice situations that will enable children to make wise decisions, recognize unsafe situations involving strangers, and select the correct response or reaction. Children can learn to be responsible for themselves, and how to make accurate judgments in situations. They can learn the basics of personal safety, what to do if someone they don’t know approaches them, or what to do if they become separated from their adult in charge.
We teach children how to be safe in a fire, and techniques to follow if such an event should occur. We also need to teach children how to keep safe from others that may want to harm them. Statistically, there is more of a need to teach stranger awareness and personal safety than to escape from a fire, but this is an area that is often ignored or overlooked because we are afraid we will scare our children.
Information from The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC):

The problem of missing children is complex and multifaceted. There are different types of missing children including family abductions; endangered runaways; nonfamily abductions; and lost, injured, or otherwise missing children. The best national estimates for the number of missing children are from studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. To date, two such studies have been completed. The first National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-1) was released in 1990, and the second, known as NISMART-2, was released in 2002. According to NISMART-2 research, which studied the year 1999, an estimated 797,500 children were reported missing:
• 58,200 were abducted by nonfamily members
• 115 were the victims of “stereotypical kidnappings”
• 203,900 were the victims of family abductions.
The NC State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) reported that 8244 children under the age of 18 were reported missing in 2003. They also report that 96% of missing children are returned safely.

Breaking these statistics down, we can see that an average of about 2,200 children are reported missing every day! That is one child every 40 seconds! And these are just the reported cases. Hundreds of thousands more cases never get reported because the missing child is eventually found or returned after a few hours.
While most lost children are eventually found, others never are. In fact, in the case of a stranger abduction, the first three hours are critical to the child’s safe return. According to a 1997 study by the State of Washington’s Office of the Attorney General, “the murder of a child who is abducted is actually a rare event... about 100 each year,“ [that we know of]. However 74% of abducted children who are murdered, have died within the first three hours of the abduction.
LOST CHILDREN STATISTICS: fromChild ID Challenge

600,000 children are lost each year more than one a minutemin everyday situations. Only 2% of the children currently wear ID.
Nearly half of all lost, missing and runaway children are involuntarily lost from their parents.
Most separations are 1 - 4 hours. With ID children are returned in 10 minutes on average, without it they could be gone for hours, increasing the chance for injury or greater tragedy.
Majority of children are under seven with 2-year-olds at greatest risk.
Many children cannot remember their address or phone number
2000 children are reported missing to the FBI each day.

Which is more important to you - your child or your pet? Strange question? Not really, when you consider these child statistics
• 60,000 pets are reported lost or stolen each year - 90 percent wear ID
• 600,000 children - more than one each minute - are reported lost for more than one hour each year - 2 percent wear ID
• Most lost children are age 7 and under, age 2 is at greatest risk

Without identification it could take hours to reunite a missing or injured child with their parents, increasing the chance for greater injury or tragedy. In fact, children who can be identified immediately spend an average of 10 minutes away from their parents in “separating” types of situations. The terrible heartbreak is, the F.B.I. receives over 2000 missing child reports every day. - Suzanne Boase, www.lrcf.org

A child is lost every 40 seconds.

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