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

I can’t imagine the look on their faces when asked of a microchip could be installed in their child.

Given SS involvement, perhaps they weren’t surprised

How dystopian.
So when a woman is trying to leave her violent partner, she has to consider also how to remove a tracker from her children.

Insanity

That sounds like a very draconian answer to what is basically a you problem.

If you have massive anxiety about your child's safety then you need to deal with that via the medical route, for yourself.

Can't remember now but they were under social services at the time because school refused to have them because he used to attack the staff and during working / school hours he was awarded 3 carers at home to look after him ( by now a teenager ) so maybe them .

Kidnappers would just cut tracker out. Haven't you watched films?

Not a new idea - it was a plot point on the 2013 TV series "Crossing Lines" when a Russian oligarch's son was kidnapped and the kidnappers just cut out the tracker

I lost DD2 a couple of times; she was a runner as a toddler and completely oblivious when she was older. I lost her once on the way home from school. She was a couple of feet in front of me, and I was watching her. I looked away for a couple of seconds when DD1 asked me a question, to look at DD1 and answer her question. When I looked back, DD2 was gone.

She'd ducked into the park, deciding to walk home a different way, and being oblivious, she just assumed we had seen and would follow. By the time she realised we weren't behind her, she was almost home, so she thought she might as well just keep going. Meanwhile, DD1 and I had gone back to the school, into all the shops, checked the play area at the park...

On another occasion, she caused an entire hotel to go into lockdown. She'd come back from the kids club and was having a tantrum that they'd turned off the hot chocolate machine early. Because of the tantrum, we were not the only ones watching her. All of a sudden, she made a run for the reception and then vanished. No one saw which way she went when she ran into reception, and the CCTV only covered the exit. We knew she had not left the hotel, but even with dozens of people scouring the hotel for her, we could not find her. Eventually, the staff made her a hot chocolate, and everyone went around the hotel calling out to her that her hot chocolate was getting cold, and she appeared as quickly as she had vanished. To this day, we still don't know where she was hiding and she cannot remember to tell us.

The school also lost her when she went to London in Y6. She wandered into a shop without thinking of telling anyone. It took them 20 minutes to find her.

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

Putting a tracker in DD2 might have been tempting if it were an option, but I doubt I would have actually gone through with it.

People would just get lazy.
My mum got one of those keyrings that beep so you can find lost keys when they first came out. She made no effort not to lose them after that.

Any one wanting to kidnap a child would cut it out op

it really is that simple

And they’d cut it out

You could put an airtag or other thing of this type in their backpack or attach it to their shoe or whatever.

Someone else mentioned severely disabled children who are prone to running off - this is something people do in that case as a sort of extra safety net on top of always having adults supervise them, having door alarms etc.

How would they be powered? Things like AirTags need to be charged. Ones in pets don’t need charge as they aren’t trackers they are ID chips that need a scanner to read.

Ridiculous idea.

Yep, it's very black mirror

Famously, government IT is extremely secure 👀.

I simply cannot believe you can’t see the logical nightmare that this is.

I’m not talking about unauthorised access. I’m talking about a father accessing data he is allowed to access and therefore locating a refuge his partner has fled to.

Kidnapping by a stranger is exceptionally rare. Most child abductions are by a parent

Plus it really focuses the attention on the risk that is much smaller (stranger abduction) vs the risk that is much larger (harm from a family member).

🤣🤣🤣 puerile, but I did laugh 😂

I had three kids never once lost them once.

There are usually procedures for finding lost kids at supermarket, shopping centers and big events and these days often phones to track.

I actually wonder if it could make parents less focused - assuming as they know where kids are they are safe rather than in serious trouble in water for example.

Op do you now see how silly this is 🤞

Oh good lord, no!

Just track the mobile? Nearly all kids have mobiles now.