> So this morning I looked at the news, and there was an alert about a California girl allegedly abducted by her mother who has mental issues. This is the second time in a week that California has issued alerts for kidnappings that seem to be done by parents. If the state begins broadcasting every parental abduction, we're going to be flooded with missing children reports.

I don't mean to be argumentative, but why do you classify parental abductions from other ones? It seems that a lot of people are willing to accept abductions done by a parent a lot more readily than ones done by strangers... To me, it seems like any abductions, period, are bad.

Of course, I agree with your conclusion that the alert will eventually become worthless. But I see no real way to stop that from happening.

Stephen