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Article: Complicity in Child Abduction.(more action by State Department required in parental kidnappings)(Statistical Data Included)

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July 23, 2001
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An estimated 15,000 U.S. children remain abroad after being abducted by a parent. But the State Department is pursuing action in less than 30 Hague Convention cases.

Former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C., has met his match. For that matter, so have Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and Reps. Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y., and Nick Lampson, D-Texas. All have been outspoken critics of how the State Department has handled international parental abductions. Suddenly they are silent. No press conferences. No hearings. Nothing.

Yet none has received a straight answer to their shared question: How many parentally abducted children have been ...

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