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New Found Hope

I chose to do my proposal and annotated bibliographies on kidnappings. This subject is particularly important to me because I work with children currently. I work in a day care with sixteen two year olds. Although there are times I want to pull my hair out because they are wild some days, they mean the world to me. They are so innocent and don’t know the difference between strangers and people they know. It would be so easy to take a child. So I have thought of an idea that could potentially change the outlook of kidnappings among other things. I believe if families had the choice of micro chipping their children at a young age it would cut down on kidnappings. The micro chip would be placed in an area that no one would know about except for the people who have placed the micro chip in. This would cut down on the idea that the micro chip could be removed during a kidnapping. This procedure would be completely optional. So in the case that a child was abducted the parents would call a number and the dispatcher would immediately type in the serial number on the chip and then the child would be located by GPS. When the child gets older then they can decide for themselves if the would like to have the chip removed. I am going to research more on approximately how much it would cost to have this procedure done on a human. I am hoping that maybe if the cost was as much as it would be to get an animal micro chipped so many people would be more willing to get their child micro chipped. I do see this procedure being feasible because it can be done to a human, it is completely optional for people, and finally it can be removed later in life. The reason many people are against this idea because it would take away from their freedoms so to speak because it would be easy access for the government to watch people. While that may be true and there is really no way of knowing this but the pro’s completely outweigh the con’s. The micro chipping of humans would not only help in cases of kidnappings it would also help with children who run away. There are more teenagers running away then ever. To most parents the loss of their child is most devastating. With micro chipping the chance of finding a run away are great rather than trying to find them with posters, news broadcasts ect. It’s a dangerous world out there and not many run a way’s realize that until it is too late. With micro chipping we could potentially prevent run a way’s and kidnappings because people would know there is no use to do it because they will be found! This is a great idea in my personal opinion because the minute a child goes missing there is a greater chance we could find the child unharmed rather than doing the Amber Alert.