What has been reported about abducted children?
According to Greif (1999) in his personal lecture notes on “The Impact of Parental Abduction on Children,” the following have been experienced by “children on the run,” whether they remain within their country of origin or are taken across international borders: 1. Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse (the range being from 6% with Finkelhor, to higher with others); 2. Neglect in terms of care, feeding, and psychological nurturing; 3. Specific training in how to be secretive in relation to hiding a sense of self, hiding accomplishments, distrusting authorities, etc.; 4. Being lied to about the searching parent, including being told the searching parent has abandoned the child, doesn’t love the child, or the searching parent is dead; 5. Being moved constantly and denied contact for any significant time with any one other than the abductor – this may include being cut-off from contact with siblings, teachers, friends, grandparents, and other relatives; 6. In addition, and on a more compl
