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Who Is Talking To Your Kids And What Are They Talking About?

The horrible dangers of child predators and abductions is present everywhere. Predators use every means possible to get to their victims including texting. Parents can protect their children by learning the texting lingo and by conducting background checks on all of the people that come in contact with them! Here is How!

By Patrick Gunning & Georgina Sprenkle

A question that haunts parents everyday!  Who is talking to your kids and what are they talking about?  The number one concern of all parents is protecting their children from harm.

It can be frightening when we may not know who our children are talking with.  It can be even more frightening when we discover that we actually do know them!

Lets face it, the kids at risk even inside the home!  With technology today predators can strike from almost anywhere.  Since the age of the internet child safety concerns have taken a new turn.  Although there are many effective safety precautions sometimes predators find a way around them.

Some of the statistics are staggering:

— 1.3 million runaways are on the streets of the United States every day.

— 1 out of 7 of those on the streets are between the ages of 10-18.

— 77% of those are female.

— 200 children run away everyday (many of these cases can be solved within hours).

— 1,315,600 children are abducted every year including estimates of the unreported.

— Over 2000 per day. Most are family abductions and recovered quickly.

— That accounts for over 1% of the US child population. 

— 58,200 per year or 159 per day Non-family Abductions are done by a perpetrator using force or threat of bodily harm

— Nearly 50% of those were sexually assaulted by their abductor

These are sobering and frightening statistics.  They only point out the importance of knowing exactly what our children are doing and with whom! The kids don’t always make it easy though!

As in every generation, kids have their own language, today they use it in texting, IM and chat.  Text language is the use acronyms or abbreviations of phrases for conversation.  It can be confusing and frustrating for parents particularly when they learn to do it so fast and use it so efficiently.

Children of every era eventually reach the point when they want their privacy.  Some want it for the wrong reasons, but for most, it is because they are trying to exercise their independence.  Unfortunately this is often the small opening that a predator needs, your confusion and a childs innocent ignorance.

There is a great tool that you can download for free and print out that will be helpful. It is provided by a nonprofit group called missingkids and is located at http://www.missingkids.com/adcouncil/pdf/lingo/onlinelingo.pdf This is a dictionary of chat abbreviations, yep the very ones that your kids are using.  Sorry, it is twelve and a half pages long.  Like I said it is not going to be easy!

Statistics also show that many of those abductions are by people we know and think we can trust.  They can be people we see often and even entrust our childrens care to.  Think about the recent accounts of teacher, student sexual misconduct.  There are also the numerous cases of clergy sexual abuse. 

Very often we trust third party endorsements without a second thought.  The school board, the church, the little league, scout troops, the babysitter!  What about the housekeeper or the yard maintenance crew, all people that may be at your house when you are not there.

Fortunately there are things that you can do to protect your family!  Never hire anyone without doing a thorough background check.  This is simple and inexpensive research that could reveal questionable information that you never would have suspected.

This information is legally available and simple to obtain.  There is even one company (SearchNetDetective) that has access to the largest private database of information.  And, its available online!  There is almost no limit to what information you can search for.

How about that?  We just turned the table on some of these predators!  While they are sneaking around trying to lure our children, we are looking into their past and exposing them to the scrutiny of all.

Heck sometimes technology is not so bad after all! Is it?

Patrick Gunning & Georgina Sprenkle Own PG Media. PG Media has helped thousands of people with their information needs online since 1998. Their feature service is http://www.searchnetdetective.com . There you have access the largest compilation of public records of its kind Background Checks, Criminal Records, Credit Reports, Personal Searches, Reverse Phone & much more! Another of their online resources is http://www.EZHomeBizTraffic.com A Traffic Exchange for the Small Business offers Targeted Web Site Traffic, Banner, Link and Text Ad Advertising Take advantage of our Link Exchange & Generous Affiliate Program, Join Free Today! An additional online resources is http://www.USAFreeSamples.com Valuable free samples, giveaway, contest sweepstake, & more

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