Missing Children

Families are always asking me where they can check a database that will tell them how many sex offenders and child sex predators live near where their child lives, goes to school, and plays.

Each state has it’s own laws that affect what can or cannot be searched for. There is talk of creating a national sex offender registry. That would make things more uniform and easier for parents. Until that happens we have created a portal that can help you search for registered sex offenders in the state you live in.

Search for Registered Sex Offenders in your state by clicking here.

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This is a great tool for teaching your children about safety and what to do if someone tries to molest them. By asking them the questions on this test, you will find out how much or how little they know about being safe and what to do if someone tries to abduct or molest them. Once you know what they do or don’t know, you can focus on what you need to teach them.

Click Here to Take the Child Safety Test with your Child.

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A lot of stories are being published recently about news coverage of missing children being prejudiced toward covering white children who are missing vs minority children. This Article explains some of the disparity.

Many wish to make this an issue of race. That is usually the same people who wish to make everything an issues of race. The news media is about money. It’s about the bottom line. It’s about ratings. There are certain demographics that spend the most money in this country. The news media has advertisers. That is how they make money. To attract the advertisers they must appeal to the demographic that spends the most money on their advertiser’s products.

Some people still think the news media has some holy agenda to bring the truth to the American Public, when in fact there is very few journalists with that ethic left in the world. These news organizations have stockholders. Stockholders demand the news organization make money. The advertisers do studies to determine which demographic they need to reach to make money for their stockholders. If the news organization does not reach that demographic, they do not buy advertising from them.

It’s simple math, not racisim. It’s about money. Not about how much money the victim’s family has, how much money the demographics say that people who are interested in that story spend. There is no need to look further than advertising and demographics to understand why some missing child stories get a lot of coversge and why others don’t.

Nonprofit organizations treat every case the same. It doesn’t affect our income and since we are nonprofit, we are free to carry out our mission without bias toward one group or another. We at Kidsearch don’t even keep statistics on how many white, hispanic, black, or other races of the children we search for and find. It’s not important to us whether the family has money or not. It’s not important to us what race the child is. The same can never be said of the corporations who run news organizations. Unfortunately, that’s a fact we all have to live with. Your comments on what might be done about it are welcome, but in my opinion, until there is a truly unbiased news organization that is not dependent on advertising dollars, nothing will change.

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We have had to search for many missing teenagers who didn’t tell anyone where they were going and they are still missing, or worse, so please pay attention to these safety tips.

1. Be sure that your parents or at least your closest friends always know where you are and how to contact you. Make sure someone expects you to be home at a certain time or to expect a call from you if you don’t show up at that time!

2. When possible don’t go out alone, take friends with you, and return home with them.

3. If you do go out alone, arrange transport to and from where you are going, with a relative, friend or taxi and confirm arrangement for your return journey before you set off.

4. Don’t accept the offer of a ride from someone you have just met. Don’t trust people you do not know. It’s that simple.

5. If any one calls don’t let him/her into the house or tell them you are home alone.

6. Ask telephone callers to ring back, don’t tell them you are alone. It helps to keep a list of emergency numbers in case of problems.

7. Wherever you are be aware of your surroundings. Don’t get wasted so you don’t know where you are and lose your sense of direction and your judgement. Keep money on you to call a friend or family member. Make sure you know how to make an emergency call and you know the quickest way out where you are.

8. After an aggression, altercation, or a rape, go to a place where you will feel more secure. Inform a friend, a doctor or the Police. The sooner the case is reported, the better it will be for the early arrest of the aggressor. Don’t wash yourself or change your clothing prior to an examination by the Police Medical Officer. Don’t forget you are only the VICTIM. DO NOT FEEL GUILTY of what happened. It is not your fault. Help the police capture the perpetrator before they repeat their crime with someone else.

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