It is estimated that a child is missing or abducted in this country every 40 seconds. (US Dept. of Justice) I chose parental kidnapping as a topic because it widely affecting the world but is always overlooked. And myself being from a divorced home where this could have happened. I think it is very important. The social work dictionary defines child snatching as: "The illegal act of removing a dependent child from the illegal care and …showed first 75 words of 670 total…

…showed last 75 words of 670 total…that I have allowed you to see how important this issue are and how drastically it needs our attention. I have learned a lot from this topic and I hope maybe that the 80% chance of finding the children will rise to 90% or 95%. But I think that all depends on how much we help. Works Cited Dear, R.B. (1995). Social welfare policy. In The Encyclopedia of Social Work (19th ed., Vol 3,) Silver Spring, MD: NASW Press.