Faces: Alabama Mother is Champion for Change
After years of advocacy—and fighting to get her daughter home safely from Mali, West Africa—Dr. Noelle Hunter is turning to research to further highlight the harrowing issue of international parental child abduction
Cover Story: The (New!) ‘Family Survival Guide’
Hear the powerful stories and lessons law enforcement can learn from the eight parents of missing children who helped us create the new multimedia edition of “When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide.”
Ways to Promote the ‘Family Survival Guide’
‘Family Survival Guide’ Authors to Law Enforcement: ‘We’re Counting on You’
The ‘Family Survival Guide’ parent-authors—and subject matter experts who work daily to protect children—want law enforcement to weigh these points.
About the ‘Family Survival Guide’ Parent-Authors
Yvonne Ambrose is the mother of Desiree Robinson, who was lured away from home, then exploited and enslaved through sex trafficking. Desiree was murdered December 24, 2016, as she fought to escape the perpetrator to whom her trafficker first sold her, primarily via the now-defunct Backpage site. Yvonne vowed to be her daughter’s voice, in […]
Advocacy Highlights: ‘Family Survival Guide’ Parents
1994 Patty Wetterling championed passage of the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, the first U.S. law to mandate that each state maintain a sex offender registry. 1996 Patty Wetterling helped accomplish: • President Bill Clinton’s executive memorandum requiring federal agencies to receive and post missing children’s fliers in their […]
Cover Story Spotlight: Parent-Author Patty Wettering’s New Memoir ‘Dear Jacob’
A new book by longtime advocate for missing children Patty Wetterling is an intimate and candid ‘must-read for anyone working on unsolved abduction cases.’