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| | UFO Evidence : Abduction Phenomenon |
 | | Prevalent hypotheses regarding the etiology of the abduction experience are examined, especially in regard to the existing evidence. | | | The concept of the abduction experience as a multicausal phenomenon is discussed, and suggestions for future research are provided. | | | The data are discussed in terms of what is and is not consistent with theory, the concept of parsimony, and the need for converging lines of evidence in establishing linkages between fact and theory. |
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http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/Abduction.htm
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| | Abductive reasoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | allows deriving a as an explanation of b; abduction works in reverse to deduction, by allowing the precondition a of “a entails b” to be derived from the consequence b; in other words, abduction is the process of explaining what is known. | | | In other words, it is the reasoning process that starts from a set of facts and derives their most likely explanations. | | | Among the possible explanations E satisfying these two conditions, some other condition of minimality is usually imposed to avoid irrelevant fatcs (not contributing to the entailment of O) to be included in the explanations. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning
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| | Abduction Phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many such encounters are described as terrifying or humiliating (but pleasant to some others), and many abductees report that extraterrestrials communicate via telepathy. | | | Their efforts were controversial (both men saw some degree of damage to their professional reputations), but to other observers, Jacobs and Mack brought a degree of respectability to the subject. | | | Matheson writes that "On balance, Mack does present as fair-minded an account as has been encountered to date, at least as these abduction narratives go." (Matheson, 251) Furthermore, Mack notes when alternative interpretations are viable; throughout Abduction he allows and even considers likely that alien abductions are a new type of visionary experience. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abduction |
| | Four elements are essential in an abduction in order to induce thereby the Tridentine diriment impediment, to wit: (1) a woman; (2) change of locality; (3) violence; (4) matrimonial intent. | | | The agents and the like, in an abduction of a woman validly and freely betrothed, but unwilling to be carried off, do not incur excommunication and other Tridentine punishments (S. Prop. | | | Hence, elopement, or abduction by seduction, does not induce an impediment diriment. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01032b.htm
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| | AI Magazine: Abduction, Reason, and Science: Processes of Discovery and Explanation. - book review |
| | His conclusion is that all these logical approaches deal primarily with the selective and explanatory aspects of abduction, leaving aside many other creative processes, such as conceptual change, an essential ingredient to study revolutionary changes in science. | | | Broadly speaking, abduction is a reasoning process invoked to explain a puzzling observation. | | | The importance of abduction has been recognized by leading researchers in all relevant fields. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2483/is_1_23/ai_84804955
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| | news and updates on abduction |
| | At the opposite, it is likely that many abduction testimonies gathered in the USA would really be only sleep paralysis, which got a nightmarish impact on their experiencers, after the reading of certain fashioned horror books which claim to explain abduction by the action of cruel and manipulative extraterrestrials. | | | This difference is fundamental, as it makes from abduction a true psychical phenomena (parapsychological), when sleep paralysis are likely to be explained only with neurological stuff. | | | Their idea, about testing abductees, was to observe such false memories, as, after them, abductions are «obviously» false. |
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http://www.shedrupling.org/recherch/abd/abdnews.php?lang=en
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| | Six Modes of Peircean Abduction |
| | The modes of abduction we have identified offer the opportunity to researchers and theorists to take a fresh look at the role of reasoning in learning and instruction. | | | The dynamics of the use of the logic of discovery in informal science we also feel are oriented toward the resolution of meaning, and in particular, the act of reasoning to the best explanation (cf. | | | In this paper, we will look at some of the consequences of that particular derivation in terms of using the concept of abduction in research and practice. |
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http://www.cs.indiana.edu/event/maics96/Proceedings/shank.html
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| | Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis? (Skeptical Inquirer May 1998) |
| | The majority of the abduction experiences they studied occurred at night, and almost 60 percent of the "intense" reports were sleep related. | | | What they do show is that knowledge of the appearance and behavior of abducting aliens depends more on how much television a person watches than on how many "indicator experiences" he or she has had. | | | These indications included seeing lights, waking up paralyzed with a sense of presence, and experiences of flying and missing time. |
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http://www.csicop.org/si/9805/abduction.html
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| | Logic of Abduction-Alex |
| | Also, exploratory data analysis, as an application of abduction, is not a permit for the analyst to be naive to other research related to the investigated phenomena (Anthony, 1994). | | | The objective of abduction is to determine which hypothesis or proposition to test, not which one to adopt or assert (Sullivan, 1991). | | | In short, abduction by intuition, can be interpreted as observing the world with appropriate categories which arise from the internal structure of meanings. |
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http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~alex/pub/Peirce/Logic_of_EDA.html
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| | International Child Abductions: A Manual for Parents - Consular Affairs |
| | This may give an advantage to the person who has abducted your child, if the abduction is to the country of his or her other nationality or origin. | | | The trauma and difficulties associated with international child abductions have led many parents to consider self-help measures, such as the re-abduction of the child. | | | Your child is most vulnerable to abduction when your relationship with the other parent is broken or troubled. |
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http://www.voyage.gc.ca/main/pubs/child_abductions-en.asp
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| | Child abduction-murders: Why? |
| | Parents or guardians could improve the chances that their child ends up safe by immediately calling the police if the child is missing, the study said. | | | Overall, the most important thing parents can do is to be certain that their children are supervised, even if they are in their own front yard. | | | For example, when someone observes an adult struggling with child in a public place, many think it is a guardian taking control of an unruly child. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20001001killings3.asp
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| | Alien Abduction Case Files, UFO Casebook |
| | Alien abduction is an increasingly troublesome phenomena which is in need of further research. | | | Judy Doraty, her daughter Cindy, Judy's mother and sister-in-law would have the most terrifying experience of their lives. | | | Through hypnosis, he would recall an odd flying object, and an alien abduction... |
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http://www.ufocasebook.com/alienabductions.html
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| | Psychology Today: Alien Abductions: The Real Deal? |
| | (This group inferred their abduction from physical abrasions, waking in strange positions or sometimes just from their penchant for science fiction.) There was also a terrestrially bound control group who reported no abduction experiences. | | | Mack is currently at work on his third book, which examines the clash between "scientific materialism and a nonrational point of view." He increasingly distances himself from the question of whether or not aliens exist in the physical world, focusing more on a "consensus reality" that precludes us from even entertaining such a possibility. | | | The abduction narrative is a strange hybrid in its own right: humiliating surgical invasion tempered by cosmic awareness. |
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/htdocs/prod/PTOArticle/PTO-20030527-000002.asp
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| | alien abductions |
| | However, until someone produces physical evidence that abductions have occurred, it seems more reasonable to believe that Dr. Mack and his patients were deluded or frauds. | | | So, of all the evidence for abduction, the physical evidence seems to be the weakest. | | | Sleep paralysis is thought by some to account for not only many alien abduction delusions, but also other delusions involving paranormal or supernatural experiences. |
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http://skepdic.com/aliens.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens |
| | Mack argues that abductions force us to reconsider our perception of reality; "no familiar theory or explanation has come even close to accounting for the basic features of the abduction phenomenon." As abductions can not be understood within the framework of Western science, a new scientific paradigm may be necessary. | | | These people are, quite understandably, deeply unsettled by their abductions and often come to Mack for assurance that there is some rational explanation for what has happened to them. | | | Yet as a psychiatrist, he has little choice but to accept that their stories reflect some kind of psychological reality, arguing that strict rationalism needs to make room for his patients' experiences. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345393007?v=glance
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| | The Doctor's Plot |
| | They're wonderfully tidy about their needles and handcuffs. | | | It is the product of a 1991 study conducted by the Roper Organization under the sponsorship of abduction buffs, who mailed their interpretation of the results--titled Unusual Personal Experiences: An Analysis of the Data from Three National Surveys--to tens of thousands of mental-health professionals. | | | Sadly, in the age of depth psychology and transpersonal psychology, hypnotherapy and psychic healing, willing professional dupes are in ready supply. |
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http://www.around.com/abduct.html
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| | SFGov: Office of the District Attorney: Child Abduction |
| | This can be a very complicated process and investigators in the Child Abduction Unit are trained in the procedures that must be utilized. | | | The person who takes the child is called the abductor parent or suspect, and the person from whom the child is taken is left-behind parent. | | | Therefore, a custody decree is especially important when the child has been taken out of the country. |
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http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/site/da_page.asp?id=320
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| | New Book Debunks Abduction Evidence |
| | The introduction doesn't come close to making up for the book, which practically accuses abduction researchers of comitting fraud and identifies alleged abductees as disturbed individuals. | | | The authors criticize the researchers for overlooking more obvious, psychological explanations for memories of abduction. | | | Add memories of the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind to psychological problems, throw in a dash of sleep paralysis, stir with a few leading questions from a UFO researcher and--voila!--an abduction experience emerges, the authors say. |
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http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/abductionenigma_review.html
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| | Abduction is distinguished from abductive induction in not being, properly speaking, experimental, that is, it makes its observations without reference to any previously propounded question, but, on the contrary, itself starts a question, or problematically propounded hypothesis, to explain a surprising observation. | | | Suppose, then, that, being seated in a street car, I remark a man opposite to me whose appearance and behavior unite characters which I am surprised to find together in the same person. | | | It has two species: the extensive, where the question is how much, and the comprehensive, or abductive, where the question is to be answered by yes or no (or else is merely susceptible of a vague answer). |
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http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/mem19.html
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| | What is Abductive Inference? |
| | The question of the status of abductive reasoning as major aspect of a "logic of discovery" is a controversial issue in philosophy of science and epistemology. | | | As process of finding premisses, it is the basis of interpretive reconstruction of causes and intentions, as well as of inventive construction of theories. | | | With his concept of abductive reasoning as a "logic of discovery" Peirce tries to reformulate the Kantian question, how synthetical reasoning is possible at all. |
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http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~wirth/inferenc.htm
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| | CFREE: Alien Contact:Abduction |
| | These are articles I have personally written on various aspects of the abduction experience and the general subject of UFOs. | | | What are the anamolies that might suggest you have unknowingly had an abduction experience? | | | The personal impact on lives can range from emotionally traumatic to uplifting, and in some cases even transformative. |
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http://www.cfree.org/Contact/Abduction/menu.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Child Abduction |
| | The Polly Klaas Foundation - Foundation for Prevention of child abduction, and aid in the search. | | | Laura Recovery Center Foundation - A non-profit foundation that works to assist communities when faced with an abducted child and prevent child abductions. | | | Child Abduction Prevention - Child abduction prevention tips. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Children,_Youth_and_Family/Child_Abduction
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| | Juvenile Justice Bulletin -- March 2001 -- Early Identification of Risk Factors for Parental Abduction |
| | They address such critical factors as the characteristics of parents who abduct their own children, the role family violence plays in increasing the likelihood of parental abduction, ways of identifying children at risk of being abducted by a parent or other family member, and steps that can be taken to protect children from family abduction. | | | We are also interested in your feedback, such as how you received a copy, how you intend to use the information, and how OJJDP materials meet your individual or agency needs. | | | Effectiveness of the Legal System’s Response to Family Abduction |
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http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/2001_3_1/contents.html
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| | Earthbounddog's Ultimate Alien Abduction Links |
| | Alien-Abductions.com: A flashy page featuring an abduction story (or something.) Nice, but I have little patience for this sort of thing. | | | A discussion of alien abduction from Psychology Today. | | | Alien Abduction at Parareasearchers.org: Yet another place to report alien abduction or view others experiences. |
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http://www.earthbounddog.com/alien-abduction.html
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| | Abduction of children |
| | In cases of international child abduction, the Foreign Office and the German missions abroad have no legal means – and in practice only very limited real means – of helping to secure the abducted child's return to Germany. | | | The following organizations also have experience of child abduction cases: | | | The prerequisite for criminal prosecution is an application by the person whose parental rights have been infringed. |
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http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/laenderinfos/konsulat/kindesentziehung_html
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| | Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - abduction |
| | Abduction is not currently thought to be well understood and Peirce's formulation has been criticized as being restricted to language-like mediums (Shelley, 1996). | | | The more general characterization of abduction as inference to the best explanation is a more recent interpretation. | | | abduction - A method of reasoning by which one infers to the best explanation. |
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http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/abduction.html
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| | International Center for Abduction Research |
| | The ICAR will provide accurate information to therapists and lay individuals who are interested in abductions, and help them cope with the variety of problems that arise from the use of hypnosis and other memory collection procedures. | | | Abduction researchers are mainly amateurs doing their best to get to the truth knowing that objective reality may elude them. | | | The majority of evidence for the alien abduction phenomenon is from human memory derived from hypnosis administered by amateurs. |
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http://www.ufoabduction.com
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| | Learning, Bayesian Probability, Graphical Models, and Abduction |
| | I then explore what this means for extending logic-based abduction to richer representations, such as learning decision trees with probabilities at the leaves. | | | This lets us see how much of the work on induction can be viewed in terms of logic-based abduction. | | | Abduction and Induction: essays on their relation and integration |
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http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/poole/abstracts/indab.html
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| | CHILD ABDUCTION & SAFETY LINKS |
| | Laura Recovery Center Foundation - Mission Statement: To foster the Triangle of Trust among Law Enforcement, Community, and a missing child's Family and thereby inspire citizens to prepare for and be able to respond immediately in addressing the needs of a missing child. | | | SAFE-T-CHILD on-line -- What to do to prevent a tragedy | | | United Care USA - Increasing public awareness of the problems of child abuse, abduction and exploitation. |
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http://personalwebs.myriad.net/steveb/abduct.html
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| | America's Stolen Children Network - International Parental Kidnapping is Child Abuse |
| | Recognizing that there is a booming child abduction "industry" being perpetrated by European mothers and Arabian fathers, we wish to limit our focus to this particular segment of the rapidly growing problem: international parental abductions of American children by foreign spouses of which there are approximately 2000 per year. | | | Parental child abduction is a form of child abuse. | | | This is understandable because there are between 1,000 and 2,000 parental child abductions every day in the United States of America. |
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http://www.stolenchildren.net
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| | Alien Abductions |
| | People wo have been abducted many times keep journals to determine patterns or timetables. | | | Physical evidence seems to support many case histories, though some experiences may actually be caused by dreams, mental problems, media indoctrination, or misinterpretation of what the person has seen. | | | The abduction agenda involves quite physical aims and procedures that belie the idea of a primary spiritual motivation on the aliens part, as well as refuting the notion that all they're doing in their agenda is crossbreeding. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/abduction.html
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| | Man Abducted In Brazil - Amazing Photos Of Scene |
| | Our group has been studying the UFO phenomena in this area for the past 6 years. | | | The man who was abducted returned after 48 hours and had a lot to say about his experience (it was his 3rd abduction). | | | We were all very amazed to have witnessed such a phenomena. |
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http://www.rense.com/general32/abduct.htm
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| | ABDUCTION |
| | Many of the abductees felt violated or hurt by the extraterrestrials during these operations, well i wonder how animals feel when we do the same to them, or how a human infant or child feels during the experience of their first hospital/clinical procedure? | | | I, members of my family, and peoples i know have had many of these abductions experiences. | | | Some peoples have actually remembered the extraterrestrials performing operations on them that has healed a certain ailment/s (such as cancer) after their abduction experience/s. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/gaz8/id36.htm
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| | Reunite - Leading UK charity specialising in parental child abduction from BritainUSA |
| | reunite provides a Child Abduction Prevention Guide that gives details of procedures and practical steps for parents to take if they fear their children are in danger of abduction. | | | Reunite has conducted a worldwide study examining the legal issues surrounding child custody and abduction. | | | They provide advice, support and information to parents, family members and guardians who have had a child abducted or who fear abduction. |
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http://www.britain-info.org/consular/reunite.asp
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| | MAAR - Malevolent Alien Abduction Research |
| | It is MAAR's mission to present to readers of this web site, our experiences, our strengths, our hopes as well as some of the vulnerabilities that can contribute to malevolent alien abductions. | | | abduction also come from the Latin abductus, which means literally, to lead away from, or to lead. | | | Majority of the people who contribute to the site come with a strong spiritual, (often a Christian understanding), yet they are still experiencing malevolent abduction. |
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http://www.maar.us
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| | Home |
| | When a child is abducted by a parent or family member, the trauma can leave scars that never heal. Believe it or not: 78 percent of all child abductions occur when a parent or family member kidnaps their own children, and yet this crime is not even a felony in every state. | | | Polly Klaas Foundation applauds Governor Rendell's commitment to keeping children safe nationwide and will continue our work to pass UCCJEA in all 50 states. | | | While 38 states have already passed the UCCJEA, all 50 states must adopt the law to make sure there are no ‘safe havens’ left for abducting family members. |
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http://www.stopfamilyabductionsnow.org
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| | Children Today — Child Abduction Tips for Parents |
| | There are, however, measures that parents can take to keep their children safe. | | | Expand your list of friends who may have seen your child during or following abduction. | | | Below is a list of safety tips provided by the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that may aid parents and their children in preventing child abduction: |
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http://childrentoday.com/resources/articles/childabductiontips.htm
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| | PIPCA: Prevent International Parental Child Abduction |
| | Prevent International Parental Child Abduction (PIPCA) was formed by Teresa Lauderdale, Cathy Brown, and Nina Lauderdale to help protect children from international parental child abduction, and to increase awareness of the tragedy of international abduction and of preventive measures that can be ordered by a Court when a child is at risk of abduction. | | | Sabrina's abduction might have been prevented by a law like HB1899. | | | Nancy Faulkner, Parental Child Abduction is Child Abuse, United Nations Convention on Child Rights, June 1999. |
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http://www.pipca.org
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| | Abduction |
| | Offers information and research into the alien abduction experience. | | | Results 1 - 6 of 6 found in "Abduction": | | | UFO investigator and former abductee, Derrel Sims, offers information and research into the UFO phenomenon, specifically, the abductee experience. |
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http://www.goguides.org/topic/1077.html
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| | Taken? |
| | Being "taken" is viewed as "experience" or "abduction." | | | Human perceptions are controlled during encounters; so are conscious memories. | | | "In the area of abduction phenomenon, there are very few things I am comfortable in accepting as factual,...and one of these 'facts' is that abductees are the targets of mental and spiritual 'programming' by the aliens.'" -- Doctor Karla Turner |
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http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/9525/taken.html
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| | Abduction |
| | Moriarty (1996) Abduction and A Theory of Visual Interpretation | | | Console, Dupre, and Torasso Abduction A procedure and format for Thinking and Action of Abduction, Verification, Evalu ation and Decision Making" to reveal the Rational past mechanisms and to create the Future mechanisms. | | | Magnani (1997) Abduction and Hypothesis Withdrawal in Science |
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http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/abduction.html
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| | Hypnosis & Alien Abduction |
| | Experiences which, perceived as happening during hypnosis, seem to defy commonly accepted canons of plausibility, or would require a drastic theoretical revision to accept, such as psychic phenomena, | | | Experiences which seem extraordinary because what is remembered (while under hypnosis) as having previously happened seems to defy commonly accepted canons of plausibility, such as the controversial UFO abduction phenomenon, | | | For the present discussion, we might divide these extraordinary experience into three overlapping types |
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http://www.webfellows.com/tufop/hypnosis___alien_abduction.html
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| | - Missing Children Website |
| | For further information, please view the news link below. | | | US/European Leaders to Address Crisis of Child Abduction and Exploitation |
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http://www.icmec.org
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| | Abduction |
| | Section 281 deals with young people under 14 years of age and states that abduction occurs when a person, who is not the parent or guardian, unlawfully takes, entices away or conceals, detains, receives or harbours the young person with the intent to deprive a parent or guardian of the possession of the child. | | | With the increase of drug trafficking, a number of countries have claimed the right to abduct offenders from a safe haven, by way of a ruse, or even by entering foreign territory, and bringing them for trial before their own courts. | | | Under section 280 of the Canadian CRIMINAL CODE abduction occurs when a person, without lawful authority, takes or causes to be taken an unmarried person under 16 years of age out of the possession of and against the will of the young person's parent or guardian. |
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http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000006
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| | Hague Convention Abduction Issues |
| | If there was no court order in effect at the date of the abduction, these"rights of custody" may be established by the law in the state in which your child was living before his or her removal. | | | This applies to children and parents involved in any child abduction case including a Hague Convention case. | | | The Convention defines"rights of custody" as including"rights relating to the care of the person of the child and, in particular, the right to determine the child''s place of residence." This right need not be sole custody. |
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http://travel.state.gov/family/abduction_hague.html
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| | Child Abduction Resource Center - a GLOBALMISSING.COM resource |
| | Parental abduction is a large and growing form of child abduction. | | | Child abduction is a serious problem in today's world. | | | The website's goal is to provide a major resource of information for parents who have been victimized by the child abductor. |
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http://www.globalmissing.com
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