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National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children

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Jan 23, 2026
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How many kids are reported missing in the us every year?

Official counts of “” in the depend on how “missing” is defined: law‑enforcement database entries (single-year NCIC counts), reports to nonprofit hotlines, and older incidence‑study estimates all give...

Feb 1, 2026

How have headline estimates like '2,300 children missing per day' been derived and critiqued?

Headline figures such as "" typically come from broad, aggregated estimates—most prominently the and advocacy groups that cite them—which count many different categories of missing-child reports, not ...