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Missing children isn't an epidemic solely focused on America, but extends globally. Many countries aren't fully equipped on the law enforcement front to properly aid in the search for missing children. China however has made a stride in the right direction and is now implementing a DNA database to help look for missing children. China has a real issue with child trafficking, children being stolen and sold on the black market.

Hopefully we can help these children in some way by raising awareness. Please help spread the word, thank you!

In India most of the children do not return. Lured away from their homes by the promise of jobs in the big city, these children are forced into exploitative situations by kidnappers masquerading as businessmen. Instead of having a better standard of living, receiving regular meals and being able to send money back to the family, many children end up in the sex trade or otherwise severely exploited.

In some cases, missing children aren't always missing. That was exactly the case with Bruce Anderson who went missing near the turn of the century. In 1912, one of the biggest news stories in the country was the disappearance of four year old Bobby Dunbar.

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In the thirteen years since the disappearance of Amber Hagerman, authorities have put in place a national alert system designed to disseminate information about abductees as well as their suspected abductors across the entire nation- making it far easier to locate and safely return missing children.

A tragic end to another innocent child's life. From this, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was born.

In case you missed it, earlier this month, CEO Matt Berman appeared on a live webcast of Fox News' Strategy Room on February 3, 2009. While there, Matt discussed child safety and the American epidemic of missing children.

The Smart case proved to be one of the most exhaustive searches for a missing child ever implemented. Suspect after suspect was, held, interrogated, and arraigned with leads going nowhere.

On February 9th, 2009, Five year old Haleigh Cummings disappeared from her trailer home in the middle of the night. The next morning, dozens of law enforcement personnel combed the woods adjacent to her home, looking for any signs of the missing child. Days

While on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in southern Portugal, Madeleine McCann went missing from an apartment in the middle of the Praia da Luz resort. Initial investigations by the Policia Judiciaria concluded that the girl had been abducted. From that moment, Portuguese police began a nationwide manhunt. They carried out a search with sniffer dogs, examined photographs taken by vacationers, and searched the coast including area caves to see if any suspects could be identified. None were found. On June 17th, the Policia Judiciaria noted that the presence of so many people in the McCann's apartment may have destroyed all the evidence and could have proved fatal to the case.

Another true story of a child abduction...

In November 2001, Lois Smart met a clean and well kept homeless man on the streets of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The man called himself "Emmanuel" and claimed his calling was to be a minister to the homeless. Feeling a sense of sympathy for him, Lois Smart invited him to her home to do odd jobs.

Polly Klaas was kidnapped at knife point from her mother's home during a slumber party in Petaluma, California on October 1, 1993.

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Haleigh's mother (Crystal Sheffield) alleges that her father, Ronald Cummings, physically abused both children as a means of punishment. In a statement to the press, Haleigh's Grandmother denied the allegations saying, "This is not the first time they've pulled this out -- it's not the first time. I don't think it's going to turn out the way they want it to. They must want custody really bad,"

3 yr old Briant Rodriguez was abducted from his home 48 hours ago at gunpoint. Abductors were thin, light-skinned Latinos. One is about 18 years old, 5 feet, 8 inches tall and was wearing blue jeans, a green T-shirt and a black baseball cap. Another about 24 years old, 5 feet, 10 inches tall and was wearing a black shirt, black pants, boots and a white bandanna. Briant is 3 feet tall, 40 pounds, with brown, curly hair. Last seen wearing a yellow shirt, blue sleeves, blue striped shorts/sandals.

Ten year old McKenna Bishop, rushing from the living room where she had been watching the television, told her mother Carol Cornell about her formerclassmate. The boy had been in her fourth grade class for two weeks at the beginning of the school year at Barranca Elementary School and then abruptly exited. Her mother called the television show, it was the first solid tip police received since the beginning of the case.

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Justin Lee Wainwright and Joshua Zohr have returned home. The teens disappeared Sunday, March 15 from their suburban Detroit homes. Following their disappearance police issued amber alerts to help locate the missing youths. The disappearances didn't attract national attention until their parents set up a website to enlist the public's support of their cause.

Good to know!

One of the challenges of being a responsible parent is to teach your child to be cautious without filling them with fear and anxiety. Dangers do exist, and the more aware your children are of them, the safer they will be.

With the new Social Media tools at our disposal, it has become even easier for us to connect with parents concerned with their children's safety; potentially, the conversation on how to best protect your children can go on infinitely.

You can now contact and add InstantAmber at Facebook and Twitter!

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A new web browser has launched to help you control the content that your kids have access to while they are using the web. Named KidZui, the browser is a fantastic place for your children to interact safely on the web, all while reporting back to you on their online activity.