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Nancy McBride
National Safety Director, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
www.missingkids.com  
1-800-THE-LOST

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to its mission and its congressional mandates (see 42 U.S.C. §§ 5771 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. § 11606; 22 C.F.R. § 94.6),

The NCMEC serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children, operates a CyberTipline that the public may use to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation, provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children, assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international child abduction in accordance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals, distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide, coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector, networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases and provides information about effective state legislation to help ensure the protection of children.

What might surprise parents about child abduction?

In this video series, Nancy McBride, the National Safety Director for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children answers questions regarding personal child safety on topics ranging from the Internet, School safety, Holiday safety, and information about child identification. The Q&A provides helpful tips and tools for parents and guardians to help keep their children safer.

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Host: What might surprise parents about child abduction?

Nancy McBride: I think parents or guardians would be surprised to know that the people who are abducting children are generally somebody that are/is known to the family in some capacity. Certainly, we have family abductions in which one of the parents abducts the child, usually in a custody dispute. But we also have also situations where it might be an acquaintance of the family or someone known to the family but not part of that family.

We call those non-family abductions, but there is still that segment of the population that is known to the family unlike the random individual who might be driving around in a car. We would all like to believe that there is a faceless, nameless person and that is the greatest danger to kids. That is very dangerous when we have a person like that who is randomly abducting kids, but that is the smallest segment of the population of people who abduct and I think we really need to change our view point and change our ideas about what the real dangers are to children, address those random individuals but also make sure that we are taking every precautions to make sure kids are safe even from people they know.

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