Fingerprinting Kids

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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 Big Brother. But they tend to

overlook the obvious benefits of theprogram and

concentrate on wildly imaginative fantasies about Big

Brother.If they would come down to earth once in a while,

and visit with and sharethe anguish of a family of an

abducted child, they would quickly changetheir attitudes.

Besides, in most cases the police do not keep the

records,the parents do. COUNTERPOINT: Absent some

showing that the fingerprinting will actuallyhelp keep

children safe and help capture criminals who harm or

abduct them,parents should refuse to have their children

fingerprinted. In promotingthe child fingerprinting program,

police officials tend to be vague abouthow the program will

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