• So if it is family members, it really doesn’t matter if they are out and about does it?

    But yeah, it does, because it’s usually some estranged family member, grabbing the kid while they’re out. It’s not who’s grabbing them, it’s where.

    Yeah, Texas is fucked up, in a great many ways. No argument there. It’s interesting reading, isn’t it?

    No, I haven’t done an age breakdown. Getting more specific statistics, or culling them out of larger reports is more work than I care to invest in this.

    Yes, you have a point about teens. 14 was “young adult” for ages; I’m not always convinced pushing it to 18 has been a wise thing. I kind of think having rites of passage and some more clear interstitial period where we recognize teens as “not children” would result in healthier teens.