According to the February 2018 Kidnapping Statistics, a child goes missing every 40-seconds in the United States. During an eight-hour workday, NINETY children go missing and over the course of a year, it is estimated that 460,000 children go missing. Of those missing children, close to 1,500 have been kidnapped.
- Of the estimated 1,435 kidnapped children, 86% of them where abducted by a family member.
- 80% of those children were between the ages of 12 and 17.
- Most of the children abducted were females living with single parents.