Quoth Willis
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I would run all the numbers, but the various sites I looked at did not break things down clearly between realatives kidnapping the children and strangers, much less the numbers on those taken from retail locations. The high-end estimate of the sites I saw, suggested less than 500 kids total are taken by total strangers from a store environment in a year.
BORING MATH STUFF (cause I'm bored )
Using worst-case scenario numbers (that I admittedly found in a short search on the net) and the estimated 2008 census numbers for the U.S. (73,886,513 children under the age of 18), the chance that any given child in your store will be taken by a total stranger is .00000677% (rounded, less than a seven-millionth of one percent). Very, very tiny.
Not very comforting to those who do have it happen, though. Watch your kids people!
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