Should children be micro-chipped?

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Would it make it easier to find missing children? Will it deter kidnappings?

[Fusion]

Simple answer no, I don't think people let alone children be micro-chipped.

[scuba steve]

Fuck no, they aren't cattle!

[1_21Guns]

it's madness tbh.
yes, probably would help find missing children, but then if the kidnappers know about the chip, they'd probably just rip it out of the poor kid.
they microchip animals.
why should we do the same to our children?
frankly people shouldnt be so corrupt so parents feel the need to microchip thier children tbh.
but i guess they are.
*shrugs* i dont really know... i think they should give a child a choice, then it's up to them. even though some might argue they arent old enough to understand, kids aren't completely dumb.
children aren't pets, so why the hell do people wanna treat them like pets?

[huginnmuninn]

i agree with what everyone else has said

[Amnesiac]

i agree with what everyone else has said

I second this agreement

[OnceMoreWithFeeling]

Children should not be micro-chipped. If ever in an emergancy the police can trace a phone (if the child has one, which most do now days) Micro chipping is done on animals, so doing that to a child is like treating him/her like an animal.

[Ender]

Micro-chipping isn't for the purpose of finding missing children, it's for identifying found children. Very similar to how a miro-chip in a dog works, except it would have fingerprint record, last known address, etc. And yes, I am a supporter of the program. :)

[ShyGuyInChicago]

I don't think it is necessarily treating a child like an animal. Besides, a child does not have the right to be anywhere without parental consent and adult supervision. How do all of you propose that missing children be found then and child abductions be prevented?

[The Batman]

Micro-chipping isn't for the purpose of finding missing children, it's for identifying found children. Very similar to how a miro-chip in a dog works, except it would have fingerprint record, last known address, etc. And yes, I am a supporter of the program. :)
Wouldn't just fingerprinting everyone at a certain age do the same thing?

[Bougainvillea]

Wouldn't just fingerprinting everyone at a certain age do the same thing?

Not everyone has access to those records. I don't think it's a universal database thing. I could be wrong.

But no, I'm just going to put my kid on a leash. And padlock his windows.

[The Batman]

Not everyone has access to those records. I don't think it's a universal database thing. I could be wrong.
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It should be, it would be like way more beneficial in identifying lost kids and criminals.

But microchipping is a no for me.

[Ender]

It should be, it would be like way more beneficial in identifying lost kids and criminals.

But microchipping is a no for me.

There are federal databases, but no international ones that i'm aware of.

Why don't you like the idea of microchipping?

[Jess]

I don't think it is necessarily treating a child like an animal. Besides, a child does not have the right to be anywhere without parental consent and adult supervision. How do all of you propose that missing children be found then and child abductions be prevented?

what if they were abducted on their way to school or on the way from school to home, and what if they are like 15? :S

[huginnmuninn]

what if they were abducted on their way to school or on the way from school to home, and what if they are like 15? :S

use the buddy system

[Amnesiac]

We could apply microchipping to a lot of situations. "Oh, did you hear about that 30-year old woman who got abducted last week? We should start microchipping people, that'll solve all the problems!"

Bad things happen no matter what, we shouldn't start implanting ID devices in people against their will in the name of safety. We're humans, not animals, we know how to get around safely by being aware of our surroundings and having friends or family go with us.

[INFERNO]

What happens after the child is a legal adult? Suppose they got the chip implanted when they were 8 years old. That gives about 10 years for the body to ignore the chip and heal the wound, making extraction harder. If the chip could be installed permanently then that may be great but if the person wants it out, the chip must be able to be safely extracted.

Also, child kidnappers would likely know about the chip and try to affect its signal or extract it. It could help for body identification but this is assuming offenders won't tamper with it.

There'd be a risk of offenders locating children to offend using it. If we use this chips for adults, the risk is much higher. It is a worse case scenario but cyber crime is a huge, ever-growing field.

[maestro15]

I think kid nappers would be able to find a way to disable that chip. Kid Nappers would be reduced by just a tad. but children are not dogs. O wait but phones have gps services. so we can track kids with phones : I

[huginnmuninn]

I think kid nappers would be able to find a way to disable that chip. Kid Nappers would be reduced by just a tad. but children are not dogs. O wait but phones have gps services. so we can track kids with phones : I

yea but kidnappers will just throw the phone away

[Nexus]

I think it should depend on the circumstances. Truants would probably benefit a lot more from being chipped than kids without any severe attendance problems.

We have kids at my school that have made routine out of ditching classes and hanging out behind stores, going to starbucks, hell, some of them even sit at the public library to pretend they're studying. If these deemed problematic students were fitted with any sort of tracking device, not only would it deter them from continuing to ditch their classes but give incentive to other students as well.

Then again, it'd cause quite a bit of uproar from parents, but if there's any kids deserving of it, it's them.

[INFERNO]

I think kid nappers would be able to find a way to disable that chip. Kid Nappers would be reduced by just a tad. but children are not dogs. O wait but phones have gps services. so we can track kids with phones : I

True but it'd be rather dumb for a kidnapper to not take away the child's phone. Perhaps the kidnapper would want to keep the phone to use but it'd make sense to either smash the phone or toss it somewhere random.