By Eli Tatyanova Petkova (4th year ESO)
In
the United States, about half a million children disappear annually.
More than 100,000 children disappear in England each year too, although
some say that the figure is much higher. The former Soviet Union
reports tens of thousands of missing children. In South Africa, it is
said that the amount exceeds ten thousand. In Germany, it's not any
better, and an estimated 100,000 children are reported missing every
year, according to the data of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Millions of children suffer the same fate in Latin America and
all over the world. The statistics about the problem can't be
considered as very reliable mainly because of the lack of a common definition
of 'missing child'.
