Prevent Childhood Abduction

Prevent Childhood Abduction

The “Big Idea” I have decided use is “preventing childhood abduction”. My working thesis statement is the U.S Department of Justice reports, that 795,500 children are reported missing in a one-year period and 203,900 were family abductions (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2012). This number grows each year the part that we need to look at is that most of these cases could have been prevented if we treated each situation that we are faced with as unsafe. We as parents have to look at a simple walk home from the school bus as a walk of terror because in just seconds that street she or he walked every day is now the street she or he went missing on. All cases cannot be prevent especially the ones were it involves family. If there were more classes available to kids and parents to teach us how to protect our family from the prey.

As I research my topic, I will make sure that I use reliable information from well-known organizations that use facts instead of opinions. I will use sites such as Missing Kids website that offers tips on how to prevent abduction and other websites such as Amber Alerts System website that is well known for bringing children back home to their families. The Kaplan library has very little on childhood abduction, but I will continue to search for dependable sites and organizations for my research.

If I were to pitch my argument to local newspaper, requesting them of the need for a Child Abduction Prevention class, I would tell them this:

It is rare that we have an incident of child abduction in our small town, but we are not immune from it either. Not having this happen often leaves us too secure in our surrounding and leaves us unprepared when it happens. Were sadly unaware of the danger that lurks around our neighborhoods but let us step out of our comfort zone and we become over protective of our children. We as a community, have little knowledge of how to prevent our children from being...