December 19, 2014

Why child abduction figures reinforce urgency for greater parental awareness

By Kate Banerjee, Head of our Children’s Department I am saddened but not surprised to hear that the Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO)  dealt with 553 international child parental abduction and child custody cases across the last 12 months – and that Reunite witnessed a 30% increase in the number of children abducted to non-Hague Convention […]

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