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A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as his or her location and fate are not known. Laws related to missing persons are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. A person may go missing due to accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons, including voluntary disappearance. In some countries, missing persons' photographs are posted on bulletin boards, milk cartons, postcards, and websites, to publicize their description. A child may go missing for several different reasons. When trying to understand how to find and protect missing children, it is important to analyse the causes and effects of a child's disappearance. While criminal abductions are often the most commonly publicised cases of missing children, it only represents between 2–5% of missing children in Europe. Many categories of missing children end up in the hands of traffickers forced into sexual or commercial exploitation and abuse. A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national centers, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece. == Reasons == People disappear for many reasons. Some individuals choose to disappear alone; most of these soon return. Reasons for non-identification may include * To escape domestic abuse by a parent(s)/guardian(s)/sibling(s)/spouse. * Leaving home to live somewhere else under a new identity. * Becoming the victim of kidnapping. * Abduction (of a minor) by a non-custodial parent or other relative. * Seizure by government officials without due process of law. * Suicide in a remote location or under an assumed name (to spare their families the suicide at home or to allow their deaths to be eventually declared ''in absentia''). * Victim of murder (body disguised, destroyed, or hidden). * Mental illness or other ailments such as Alzheimer's Disease can cause someone to become lost or they may not know how to identify themselves due to long-term memory loss that causes them to forget where they live, the identity of family members or relatives, or their own names. * Death by natural causes (disease) or accident far from home without identification. * Disappearance to take advantage of better employment or living conditions elsewhere. * Sold into slavery, serfdom, sexual servitude, or other unfree labour. * To avoid discovery of a crime or apprehension by law-enforcement authorities. (''See also'' failure to appear.) * Joining a cult or other religious organization. * To avoid war or persecution during a genocide. * To escape famine or natural disaster. * Death by floods, flash floods, debris flows, hurricanes and tsunamis. * Accidental drowning in open water, with no body recovered. * Homicide involving water, with no body recovered. * Suicide in water, when the body disappears and is not recovered. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「missing person」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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