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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.

Should children be allowed to go to the restroom alone while shopping?

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: Should children be allowed to go to the restroom alone while shopping?

Nancy McBride: It is really not a good idea for kids to go alone into restrooms while you are shopping and it becomes a dilemma often times especially for moms who have little boys with them, their sons with them. So, make sure that you can at the very least stand outside of the door and give your children a certain amount of time if you must send them into the restroom alone. But if do not have to, it is so much safer, if you accompany your children into the restroom. Check it out, make sure you are comfortable being in there, if anything is going on or anybody is acting in a way that makes you, the adult feel uncomfortable, get your child out of that situation and let mall security know or let store security person know that there is something happening in the restroom they need to investigate. This is not a good place for kids to be alone.

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