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In my opinion, children never go missing if they are in under their parents' care. With parents' care, they can realize what is the right way to to go. In addition, when parents see any evident of going missing, they can hinder this action. Therefore it's so difficult to going missing when the children receive a lot of care from their parents.

Parents really cannot be in control 100% of the time. It only takes a couple of seconds for a child to be lost in a crowd, or worse to be abducted. Does this call for more use of reins, harnesses, or the child being strapped in a pushchair, depending on age and to what age?

Yes, Children go missing when parents are careless, (Agreed)
The first school and learning place for a baby is the mother's hug and the family environment. If you give them good upbringing and teach them better ways how to live, definitely they can easily handle the remaining life by themselves.

At the first, I believe that, it's the parents mistake. In some place there has lot of people, the parents should hold child's hand all the time. If you don't, and get the child lost, that is your mistake. This is your child, not others. So take the responsible to them.

I don't agree. Sometimes, even the most careful parents (the doting ones) can face such situations, when kids are missing. According to the GlobalMissingKids statistics, each year the UK and Germany have 112,853 and 100,000 kids missing correspondingly. These are the biggest numbers in the world. Does that mean that German or British parents are more careless that others? While in Canada, only 45,288 are reported to be missing yearly.

I'm an ESOL teacher in America and want to point out that, in the US, to say for a child to go missing means that something nefarious, like an abduction or kidnapping happened. After reading people's posts, I realized my mistake. It's my opinion that most Americans would rewrite this prompt, "Children only run away when their parents are careless."

No, not only the careless parents make children want to leave home. Parents who are over caring for their kids can also lead to this outcome because they might put too much stress on kids. This is a typical situation that happened in Asian countries.

I partially agree with that. Parents are careless that increases the possibility that children go missing. However, we should know that some children go missing when parents are too much careful. We, both children and parents, are all human beings.

I partially agree with that. Parents are careless that increases the possibility that children go missing. However, we should know that some children go missing when parents are too much careful. We, both children and parents, are all human beings.

It is very cruel to blame parents of the missing children. They are miserable and desperate enough since it is their children who are being kidnapped or abducted, I mean in worst case. No parents want this happen to their children. They might be careless sometimes, but there are other chief culprit such as bad guys who do children trafficking. And these bad guys are the main cause and shall be blamed for the missing children instead of parents.

This statement is too absolute. Even if the parents are careful enough, there is still some possibility that children can go missing, since parents cannot follow their children all the time. Danger stays everywhere. Not only parents but also children themselves should be careful.