Child Snatching, Kidnapping & Abductions

Events along our country’s borders prompt a look at the greatest fear of children

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

1) If you want to scare kids: childhood abductions . . .

Roald Dahl: Can Grown-Ups Be Trusted?

2) When kidnapping was a crime rather than a policy . . .

Explaining Child Abduction & Murder

3) The trauma of the Lindbergh Kidnap produced this story . . .

Maurice Sendak’s “Outside Over There”

4) What separations do to parents . . .

Roald Dahl and the Back Story to “The BFG”