AIBU to think child tracking implants would be useful until age 12?

Nope. The risk of kidnapping is so low and the consequences of deciding we can pick and choose to track people deemed vulnerable is very high.

Had she taught her children what to do if they were separated in the crowd before taking them to a crowded/public space?

That is the answer, not implanted trackers from a dystopian novel.

Lots of kidnappings? Really? How many do you know of? That aren’t by an estranged parent, who would fibd this idea very helpful….

Hallelujah

a tracker would need a battery, unlike a micro chip which only gives the information held when scanned. Surely it would have to be pretty large to last 12 years so not very comfortable for a baby?

No. No. No. Just no. NO! The dystopia of 2020 has invaded minds.

It’s a slippery slope.
Sold as a convenience: check.
Goalposts moved to include up to age 13: check.
Then up to 18: check.
Then when social media ban extended to age 21: check.
Then rolled out to whole population because “we’ve started, so we might as well finish”.
Probably administered by Horizon, and look what that did.

Have we learned NOTHING?

Have you any idea how long that court process takes !

We can't even get people to chip their pets how the heck would you implement this ?

That is the risk.

If you've never lost a child for a short time, that's probably more luck than anything else.

Well likely yes as some kids are bolters and don't understand or follow instructions.

However I also had rein back packs and insisted kids held pushchair and hands so they learnt to stay close and also had them watch out for each other - beacause I had three by myself and days out would be buses and train stations. It was ataught to them. If they did try and run off they quickly learnt it was a very bad idea - meaning they had to earn trust back. School were same a child wandering off - they wound't get to go on next school trip as too risky to take them.

Also seen parents do they I just took eye off them - and clocked they actaully been ignore the kid for more like 10 minutes.

Obviously there will be situation and kids that no more can be done to keep them in sight and most kids lost are fine in end - but for the vast majoirty the fear is useful emotion - it's unpleasant and forces adults to consider how to avoid in future.

If you mute the fear with assumption you can track them - nothing changes and even if you know where they are doens't mean they are actually safe.

Sure until someone figures out how to hack them, stalks your child, takes them and then blocks the signal so you think they’re dead when they’re not…

Tech is never infallible OP. Don’t rely on it.

Yes, I was going to suggest OP watched this, a very good example of the dangers of this sort of technology

This. Jeez. 🙄

Oh boy, this is dystopian in the extreme. Hunger games vibes…..

But the fact that you didn’t even think “ability to track would be a boon for abusive men” is that worries me. Because you won’t be the only one - people cannot look beyond the end of their own nose so we get absolutely idiotic suggestions like this permeating through society.

The technology isn’t there yet, thankfully. Microchips in animals don’t provide GPS tracking, they need to be scanned by a vet. Anything with GPS would need a battery, which would probably be too big to fit into a baby’s arm. And the battery would need recharging every few weeks. So you’d have a wire with a little recharging port hanging out of your baby‘s arm. It would almost certainly get infected. Dystopian indeed.

The hotel was scary. Even though we knew she hadn't left the hotel, we also didn't know who else was staying in the hotel, and the entire building was involved in looking for her, so the entire building knew there was an unsupervised 5yo hiding somewhere.

The other times were more annoying than scary; I was well used to her antics and assumed she'd gone into a friend's play without thinking to ask/tell anyone rather than having had anything horrible happen to her.

I always used to warn her that one day she would get lost and/or fall and hurt herself, and no one would look for her because they were so used to her vanishing.

Also no electronic system is totally hack proof. Imagine the potential consequences when someone get access to this data!!!

No woman with children would ever be able to leave an abusive partner.

You leave your abuser, and work out contact with the kids in a contact centre or in a neutral handover location, or not at all. It might go through court if he seeks access but it might not. You can still leave him and he has no right at all to know where you live, even if you have his kids living there.

With your idiotic idea, women wouldn’t be able to leave and keep themselves safe and he would always know where they were, until they were able to go to court and have his “rights to access the tracker” removed. But if you bring in tracking of children, then it would be a very very high bar to remove a parent’s right to access the device. I’d imagine very few victims of domestic abuse could prove it to a high enough standard that his right to track would be removed. So abusive men will always be able to track where their ex lives.

One thing that saves women’s lives is that parents actually have no legal right to know the home address of their child when they live with the other parent. Access handovers can be done anywhere, they have no legal right to know where the child lives. No one needs to prove abuse or danger.

You bring in tracking and that’s gone instantly. You’d have to prove you were in danger to remove his right to track - courts take months if not years so women would be in danger the entire time, and the burden to prove it would be so high that most couldn’t.

The most dangerous time for a woman in an abusive relationship is when she leaves. And she wouldn’t be able to leave and have his tracking rights removed in the same day.

Your idea will get women killed.

Put the little kid on reins or one of those bungee things on their wrist, then.

Have there? "Lots"? Happening to ordinary kids? In the UK?