Probably one of the worst things that can happen to a parent is when there child runs away. I found it amazing how quickly community and law enforcement immediately believes that the parent is the cause of the child taking off. Obviously if everything was okay at home, and you were getting along with your child, your child would not have ran away.
This is a nightmare that you can not imagine, unless of course you have lived it. I once thought that when I heard parents say, he/she was there one moment, then gone the next, and that no one was helping them, to be a little bit unbelievable. Surely if a child disappears no matter what the age, you should be able to rest assured that someone is trying to find them.

Well, the truth is that there are so many runaways that the police and other law enforcement agencies basically put up a front to be looking for the child. When in fact they are not.
But the nightmare that has become is only the beginning, for in many instances, whether it be true or not the part is blamed for the child leaving and in most cases accused of child abuse, neglect and not being a good parent.
If the truth be known in most cases the teen, the child protection services and the police will use this every time as the reason a child has runaway, and the parent is now on trial. When in fact we have an out of control teenager, who once more is getting away with murder, and slapping their parents faces and saying, "See I can do anything I want, and you can't stop me, in fact mom and dad I can ruin your life with one simple sentence. I ran away because I was being abuse!"
Children runaway for many reasons, the most common is they get too big for their britches!
Warning Signs of a Potential Runaway.
Attempts to communicate with your teen results in arguments, raised voices, interruptions, name calling, hurt feelings and failure to reach an acceptable agreement.
Your child has a network of friends who are largely unsupervised, oppositional, defiant, involved with drugs and other antisocial behaviors.
An increasing pattern of impulsive, irrational and emotionally abusive behavior by your teenager.
THINGS THAT HELP TURN YOUR LITTLE ANGEL INTO SOMEONE YOU DO NOT KNOW
1. Physical Changes and Emotions
2. Emotional ups and downs have various sources.
3. Hormones, which set off physical changes at puberty, are also responsible for affecting moods and general emotional responses in teens.
4. Worries about physical changes - height,

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