Parental Abductions

How often has it been said "At least the child is with a parent, whats the problem?".
Just because a child has been abducted by a parent, does not make the abduction acceptable?

Lets take a few minutes and think of the child.................the innocent victim

Torn away from a life that they know, ripped away from everything that was familiar to them. Torn from the family members they loved and felt secure with, from their routine, from their friends, down to the material goods that made them feel secure and grounded. Taken to a life of running and hiding.

What level of normality can a child who is the victim of parental abduction expect to have?What are these children told as to why they can no longer see their other parent and family members? Their mother or father is dead? That they a bad person?

The emotional, psychological and physical impact on children is often so significant that family abduction is considered a form of child endangerment. Children who live through this type of abduction, often suffer severe lifelong emotional and psychological damage

An act of unconditional parental love? or; An act of supreme selfishness? The biggest motive for parental abduction is revenge, making this type of abduction one of the worse types to deal with. Its not about love - its about power.

Most parents who find themselves having to deal with this type of abduction, possibly never imagined that something like this could happen to them. Most people assume that if a child is abducted, that its usually by strangers. Statistics reveal that parental abductions are much more common than stranger abductions.

Putting the emotive side of this issue aside, abduction is a CRIME, even if the child is your own. The parent who has taken the child, has done so illegally, and in the majority of these cases an arrest warrant will be in place.

If you started reading this with complacent thoughts around Parental Abduction, we hope your mind is now at least open to the realities.

Written in honour of the following children who are the innocent victims of parental abductions:


Sabrina Allen - USA - Abducted by her non-custodial mother, Dara Marie Llorens. April 2002.

Sigourney Teresa Chisholm,- Canada - Abducted by her mother Patricia O'Byrne in May 1993.

Adam, Trevor and Mitchell O'Brien - Canada - Abducted by their father Gary O'Brien in November 1996.

Caroline Teague - USA - Abducted by non-custodial mother Alejandra Urdaneta in January 2002.

Keoni, Lance and Mason Fernandez - USA - Abducted by their non-custodial mother, Francina Fernandez in November 2004.

Deonna Shipman - USA - Abducted by non-custodial father, Jeffery Shipman in July 2007.

Sean Goldman - USA - Abducted by mother taken to Brazil - June 2004.


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Good post LaMisty!!

Little children should not have to suffer this.I don`t know how the parents can put them through it.

This is so true....it's a power struggle...not about love!