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Children are in danger more these days than at any other time in history, due to greater social mobility and greater anonymous worldwide access. Child safety is affected adversely by these phenomena because previously children knew their neighbours and peer pressure helped restrain some people's perversities and the Internet provides anonymous access to unsuspecting children.

People just do not know who they're talking to on the Internet. In chatrooms, members are encouraged to use a nickname. People can pretend to be either sex and any age and of any sexual persuasion. Perverts can and do take advantage of this to entrap innocent, unsuspecting children. So child safety must be paramount in a parent's mind. Kids are pretty much aware of the dangers in the physical world due to long-term warning from their parents, teachers and the media. (article continues below)

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However, many 'older' people are not as Internet aware as they should be in order to foresee the dangers and take care of their child's safety. Remember, you may not be Internet savvy, but perverts usually are and your kid probably is too.

This leaves YOU, the sensible one, out of the loop and allows the pervert almost unregulated access to your child! Use these articles to help improve the scope of your child's safety.

Here are some very worrying statistics:

1. According to the Department of Justice, nearly 1 million children are reported missing each year in the United States. That means a child goes missing every 40 seconds, more than 2,100 per day.
2. There is a 1 in 42 chance that a child will go missing before the age of 19.
3. Finding a child within the first three hours could mean the difference between life and death.
4. According to John Walsh, founder of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), acting within the first 20 minutes following a disappearance is absolutely critical as “the chances of safely recovering a child are much greater within the first few hours immediately following a child abduction.”
5. Law enforcement agencies need specific information in order to start the process of finding a missing child: recent photographs, name, date of birth, height, weight, unique personal identifiers such as eyeglasses and braces. In a state of panic, parents often cannot recall all of the information needed and rarely have access to a recent photo.

All the very best and take care,
The Staff at the 'Child Safety Website'

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