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Runaway children

Most missing children cases are runaways, and the numbers are influenced by factors such as youth homelessness, family conflict, and mental health.

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Jan 27, 2026
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USA missing children reported from 2001 to 2026 by year

Publicly available reporting and agency summaries do not provide a clean, authoritative year‑by‑year table of the number of from 2001 through 2026; instead, federal studies are periodic, nonprofit sum...

Jan 26, 2026

What portion of reported missing‑child cases are runaways or family abductions versus non‑family abductions?

Most reported are not but runaways, throwaways, or ; modern national studies and agency tallies show runaways and family abductions make up the overwhelming majority of reports while non‑family (stere...

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