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Tracking Kids with GPS

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Why track kids with GPS

Each year in the USA, 800,000 children are reported missing and over 200,000 are the victim of family abduction. Tracking kids with GPS is one method of giving parents piece of mind.

Florida alone had 62,000 missing person reports in 2007. And the state had 51,560 registered sex offenders. And they rank only third in the nation with California and Texas ahead of them for reported missing persons (which are mostly children), registered sex offenders and the number of "stereotypical kidnappings" the most serious kind of stranger abductions.

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Here's how a child GPS Tracking System works

A child GPS tracking system uses the same technology as a car's Sat Nav in finding a street or a cellphone finding the nearest bank. The GPS device fixes on satellites which send their signal back to the GPS device.

The system generally works by placing or attaching a small device to the child's wrist, ankle or belt or drop it into their pocket or backpack. The parent can then use a cellphone or computer to communicate with the device when they need to know where the child is and receive a map and location.

Responsibilities that come with tracking kids

A child GPS tracking system is not a substitute for good parenting, but rather an additional safety measure. Even the best parent cannot keep track of their kids all of the time.

The recent well-publicised case of 3 year old Madeline McCann's disappearance in May 2007 whilst on holiday in Portugal emphasises this point. Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, left the children unsupervised in a ground floor bedroom while they ate at a restaurant about 130 yards away. Madeline hasn't been seen since.