Preventing child abductions

On average, 2,185 children under the age of 18 were reported missing each day of the study year.

That adds up to more than 797,500 children annually.

Of that total, almost that 204,000, or about 25 percent, were family abductions.

An estimated 58,200 were abducted by someone other than a family member.

Of those, 115 were taken by complete or partial strangers and kept for a period or killed.