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Fingerprinting Kids - College Term Papers

Fingerprinting Kids

Copyright 1983 NPG,Ltd.
Issue: Should parents voluntarily create detailed identification records
(including fingerprints) on their children in anticipation of possible
runaway problems or abductions? (1) Yes. You can never tell when terrible
things will happen to a child, so its best to be prepared. (2) No. The
vast majority of missing children are not abducted. Whether abducted or
not, fingerprinting will do no good. It wastes time and money and pushes
us that much closer to the creation of the Orwellian National Data Center
that Congress rejected fifteen years ago.

BACKGROUND: As of early 1983, 11 states had launched programs to
fingerprint children.( These were New York, ...

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while in others the fingerprint cards are
turned over to the parents for safekeeping. The apparent purpose of the
program is to help provide positive identification to link either children
picked up, or bodies recovered, with missing person notices.

Every year about 1 million children are reported missing. Of these
most, about 800,000, are away from home for less than two weeks. About
150,000 of the total missing are abducted; of these two thirds are abducted
by a divorced parent.

Some of the reasons behind the missing children are not pretty.
According to an article in Parade, "about 35 percent of runaways leave home
because of incest, 53 percent because of physical neglect. The rest are
"throwaways," children kicked out or simply abandoned by parents who move
away. Every state has laws against incest, child abuse, abandonment, child
pornography and the procuring of children, but they are rarely enforced."

POINT: Conscientious parents should have their ...

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Added: 12/22/2004 12:28:28 AM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1056
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