Fingerprinting Kids

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Term Paper Title	Fingerprinting Kids
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.68

Fingerprinting Kids

Should
parents voluntarily create detailed identification
records(including fingerprints) on their children in
anticipation of possiblerunaway problems or abductions?
(1) Yes. You can never tell when terriblethings will happen
to a child, so its best to be prepared. (2) No. Thevast
majority of missing children are not abducted. Whether
abducted ornot, fingerprinting will do no good. It wastes
time and money and pushesus that much closer to the
creation of the Orwellian National Data Centerthat
Congress rejected fifteen years ago. BACKGROUND: As
of early 1983, 11 states had launched programs
tofingerprint children.( These were New York, Virginia,
Florida, Georgia, NewJersey, California, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Nebraska, Connecticut,Rhode Island,
Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana.) Most of this activity
wasstimulated by the passage of the Missing Children Act
in October 1982.What the new law did was to legitimize
the use of the FBI's nationalcomputer network,the National
Crime Information Center (NCIC) fornon-criminal
purposes. All of the programs are voluntary. In some cases
the policedepartments retain the records, while in others the
fingerprint cards areturned over to the parents for
safekeeping. The apparent purpose of theprogram is to
help provide positive identification to link either children
picked up, or bodies recovered, with missing person
notices. Every year about 1 million children are reported
missing. Of thesemost, about 800,000, are away from
home for less than two weeks. About150,000 of the total
missing are abducted; of these two thirds are abductedby a
divorced parent. Some of the reasons behind the missing
children are not pretty.According to an article in Parade,
"about 35 percent of runaways leave homebecause of
incest, 53 percent because of physical neglect. The rest
are"throwaways," children kicked out or simply abandoned
by parents who moveaway. Every state has laws against
incest, child abuse, abandonment, childpornography and
the procuring of children, but they are rarely enforced."
POINT: Conscientious parents should have their childrens'
fingerprintsrecorded to help in the event of an abduction;
they shouldn't wait until aftersomething terrible happens, but
should take reasonable steps now. Thousands of children
are runaways, and in many cases it is all butimpossible to
determine clearly who they really are. People change,
butfingerprints don't. Well-intentioned but misguided civil
libertarians worryabout B...

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