May Monthly Safety Tips for Parents

National Missing Children's Day is May 25

On May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared from a New York street corner on his way to school. His photo, taken by his father, a professional photographer, was circulated nationwide and appeared in media across the nation and around the world. Etan became the poster-child for a movement. The powerful image came to symbolize the anguish and trauma of thousands of searching families.

The widespread attention brought to Etan’s case and several others eventually led to a nationwide movement to help locate and recover missing children. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25^th – the day that Etan went missing – as National Missing Children’s Day. Since then, each administration has recognized this day as a time to renew efforts to reunite missing children with their families, remember those who are still missing, and make child safety a national priority.

In honor of National Missing Children's Day, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children encourages you to take 25 minutes to help make children safer.

• Conversation Starters
• 25 Ways to Make Kids Safer (English)
• 25 Ways to Make Kids Safer (Spanish)
• Missing Child Guide
• FBI Child ID App
• National Child ID Kit 

"See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven." Matthew 18:10