Missing children panic
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title:
Missing children panic
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The missing children panic was a moral panic concerning child abduction and murder by strangers in the United States. The event was triggered after the abduction of Etan Patz in 1979 and the kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh in 1981, with subsequent media reports exaggerating and misrepresenting child abduction statistics. The panic popularized the misleading claim that 1.5 million children per year disappeared or were abducted in the United States, introduced the stranger danger narrative int
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American moral panic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_children_panic
date created:
2024-06-24T00:15:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T18:14:55Z
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