Why are our children disappearing?

The case of Pawlos moves Weilburg and the whole of Hesse: For weeks, there has been no trace of the six-year-old boy. Pawlos is one of over a hundred missing children in Hesse. A look at facts and figures behind which are numerous fates.

Why are our children disappearing?

With a growing number of children vanishing from home, often without warning, concerned South African parents are left grappling with difficult legal and emotional challenges. The George Herald reports that while the instinct might be to panic or even blame the child, experts say there’s a lot more going on beneath the surface—and a lot more parents can do to understand and respond to these incidents. Under South African law, particularly the Ch…