by Denise Wallace

Created on: June 07, 2009

I don't believe that we are stalking our children when we track them with a GPS. If we can have some advantage on protecting our children, we need to take it!

In this day and age we have to watch our children the very best we can. These are dangerous times. You watch the news and over and over there are children being taken by predators, and murdered. I can't imagine a worse nightmare for a parent to experience.

It is our responsibility, our job, our duty, our life purpose to watch out for our children. To keep them safe any way we can. There are predators that trick children into going with them, stalk them until there is an opportunity to grab them. If there is something out there that gives us a leg up on them, we NEED to try it!

There are approximately Eight-hundred and fifty thousand children reported missing to law enforcement over the course of any given year. About half of those children are runaways or throw-aways, which is a term used when parents basically kick their kids out of the house. I'd say another half, another 25%, would probably be parental abductions. And then the other 25% are divided between just children not being where they're supposed to be at a given time and then basically ratcheting it down to the stereotypical stranger abduction. It seems to occur, I'd say, a few thousand times a year. They seem to result in the death of the child maybe a hundred and fifty to two-hundred times a year. Mark Klaas

I don't know about you but that's too many for me! I don't know what the sentencing for a first time child molester is, but I do know that they do get back out onto the streets every day. We need to protect our children from the first time offender and the re-offenders. It is absolutely disgusting to me, that these animals get out of jail to re-offend, but they do.

When our children go out to play, they aren't really safe, even in the safest neighborhoods. You never know when there is someone out there that would do anything to get them. When we take them to the stores, we could turn our back for 2 seconds, turn back and our children could be gone. I would want to be able to track and find my child before the unthinkable was able to happen. So, our older children get angry with us, so what?! Some day when they have their own children they will understand and thank us for our love and protection.

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