What Parents Need to Know About Child Safety and Identification
There seems to be a general misconception concerning child safety and child identification. In speaking with parents, one thing becomes very clear. Parents commonly believe, that by recording their childrens fingerprints and DNA information, they have taken all the steps necessary in order to protect as well as provide identification for their children.
Unfortunately, this could not be further from the truth. Common sense dictates that the only time a childs fingerprints or DNA information would ever become necessary would be in the worst-case scenario, after the unthinkable has happened.
We as parents would like to watch over our children 24-hours a day, thereby, ensuring our childrens safety. However, this is unrealistic.
In situations where young children get separated from their parents as well as natural disasters such as: hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis, we are reminded time and again, that children do not carry identification.
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