In October, 2002 the United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention prepared the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children. In that report, the following key facts were provided:

	In 1999, there were an estimated 203,900 children abducted by family members. Only 56,500, or 28% were reported to law enforcement.
	Of these 203,900 children, 110,106 (54%) were under six years old.
	Fifty-three percent (108,067) of family abducted children were abducted by their father and twenty-five percent (50,975) were abducted by their mother.
	Approximately twenty-one percent (42,819) of the children abducted by non-custodial family members, were missing for more than one month, and six percent (12,700) remained missing.
	The “typical” family abducted child is six to eleven years old, female, white, and of single parent households.
	The “typical” abduction occurs with no threat or use of force or weapon, with the intent to prevent contact and affect custody permanently.

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