On occasion one of my kids went "missing" for a brief time. I'm using the quotes because it was NEVER a serious case of gone missing. One time I couldn't find my younger child when I was doing a final house check before going to bed. I finally found him sound asleep on the floor of the laundry room. 
That same child would often wander away from me when we were out shopping, and I'd have to go searching for him. I soon realized that he'd eventually return to the place he'd last seen me, so all was well.
My point here is that there are missing kids (like my son, not very serious) and there are missing kids (name any high profile case you want). There are substantive difference between those two. I'm genuinely grateful I never had the latter kind of missing kid, but I've had enough brief scares to get a sense of what the real thing might be like.
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