There are so many missing...

[LMC]

OK, OT.....I wish this was available now. With a special needs child who does anything an adult tells him I would have it placed in a heartbeat! They can then remove it when they are 18 yrs old. With all the wackos out there, I would like to know they would have a way to find my child(ren) if ever abducted.

Now back OT....

I read that in ten years most kids will be given shots that will insert a computer chip that will allow them to be tracked by Global positioning Sat systems. People are already doing that to pets and retail merchandise.

 

[hentob]

On CNN they have pictures of children with their name and age. The ones that have no pictire (I can understand this--Washed away) but the ones that have a ? next to the age. This either means that the parents are dead/missing and surviving family and friends don't know the age of the child, or that the parents do not know how old their child is.

Sad.

 

[DawnCt1]

I heard on CBS that the 2400 children missing was an exageration. That the where abouts of these children are known, they are with loved ones, etc. There are less than a dozen children actually living in shelters with no known family member.

 

[luvthatduke]

I heard on CBS that the 2400 children missing was an exageration. That the where abouts of these children are known, they are with loved ones, etc. There are less than a dozen children actually living in shelters with no known family member.

Wow, Dawn - I really hope that's true,
it would be GREAT news!
If you find a link please post it somewhere,
I'd be interested to read it.

Greta Van S.'s eblog today still talked
about the huge numbers of missing/disconnected children.
So I'm wondering what the true number really is.
She talked about the children who's pics will probably
never be posted due to the flooding and also that
families could not afford to have pics taken regularly.
She said how sad it was to have men & women come up
to she & her team at the shelters, begging them to help
find their missing children.

I know I'm a broken record, but I just cannot fathom
the wonderful pilots and crew on the rescue helicopters
just dropping small children on I-10 or in front of the Convention Center?
It just doesn't make sense to envision hundreds or even
thousands of children wandering on their own *sigh*.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

It might be true that CNN is misreporting about alleged missing children. Yesterday on Good Morning America Charlie Gibson said, "We're going to start this half hour with a reality check. Thousands of children were reported missing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but those reports may not be reflective of the reality. David Muir is here with some good news."

MUIR: Their images are posted on the Internet and play repeatedly on cable television.

CNN'S WOLF BLITZER: Children still missing.

MUIR: But authorities in Louisiana are now concerned the public is getting the wrong message.

MARKETA GAUTREAU, LA DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES: The images that there are these thousands of children in Louisiana that are missing, and that is just not the case.

MUIR: In fact, in Louisiana and Texas, state authorities say there are now fewer than a dozen children who remain in shelters on their own. So why the discrepancy?

GAUTREAU: Often we have a mother that got out with the child or a grandmother that got out with the child, and maybe mom doesn't know grandmother has the child.

MUIR: The majority of the children labeled as missing are in fact with loved ones who have yet to get the word out that they're okay.

Things that make you go "hmmm." Why would CNN be doing this?

 

[yeartolate]

Well, then the question that needs to be asked is why grandma has the child and mom is alive and looking - why can't the two connect? At this point - there should be an effective enough communtion system to at least connect the too parties over a cell phone, landline, internet -- or red cross to red cross ------ something to take them off the missing list!!!!!

 

[mickeyboat]

It might be true that CNN is misreporting about alleged missing children. Yesterday on Good Morning America Charlie Gibson said, "We're going to start this half hour with a reality check. Thousands of children were reported missing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but those reports may not be reflective of the reality. David Muir is here with some good news."

MUIR: Their images are posted on the Internet and play repeatedly on cable television.

CNN'S WOLF BLITZER: Children still missing.

MUIR: But authorities in Louisiana are now concerned the public is getting the wrong message.

MARKETA GAUTREAU, LA DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES: The images that there are these thousands of children in Louisiana that are missing, and that is just not the case.

MUIR: In fact, in Louisiana and Texas, state authorities say there are now fewer than a dozen children who remain in shelters on their own. So why the discrepancy?

GAUTREAU: Often we have a mother that got out with the child or a grandmother that got out with the child, and maybe mom doesn't know grandmother has the child.

MUIR: The majority of the children labeled as missing are in fact with loved ones who have yet to get the word out that they're okay.

Things that make you go "hmmm." Why would CNN be doing this?

I was also thinking it might be a case where a non-custodial parent has no idea where the custodial parent is located at this time.

yeartolate is right - why isn't there a better system to reunite these families?

Denae

 

[bsnyder]

I was also thinking it might be a case where a non-custodial parent has no idea where the custodial parent is located at this time.

yeartolate is right - why isn't there a better system to reunite these families?

Denae

Yes, this is certainly the case. I've read that upwards of 70% of the families that didn't leave before Katrina struck and had to be evacuated were headed by a single parent, in most cases a female.

 

[luvthatduke]

ABC News tonight did a report on this.
They said that the true number of unaccounted for children
is less than one dozen, according to the shelters.
The high number we hear apparently is true also,
but it's believed to account for children who were
taken to safety by another family member.
I agree with the other posts that there should
be a system in place or at least gathering steam now
to reunite the whole families.