> 99.8% of the children who go missing do come home.

> Only about 100 children (a fraction of 1%) are kidnapped each year in the stereotypical stranger abductions you hear about in the news.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/in-a-yea...

> In a Year, Child-Protective Services Checked Up on 3.2 Million Children

> 2.5 million of those kids were declared 'non-victims.' Another 686,000 were 'abused' or 'neglected.' And an estimated 1,640 kids died as a result.

To be fair, one of these has a much higher rate of incident than the other.

Personally, I'm more concerned with the quality and accuracy of CPS than I am about child abduction simply because a 10% improvement in CPS would save more lives than a 100% reduction in child abductions.

Then again, I feel that way about medical errors vs. terrorism and the value of spending money to save lives. A 10% reduction of medical errors would save more lies than a 100% reduction in terrorism. :/