You Have 25 Minutes To Talk Safety With Your Children?

Need the tools to talk to your kids about protecting themselves from stranger danger and abduction?

The Atlanta Police Department, Fulton County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation will show parents and guardians how at the fifth annual Georgia Missing Children’s Day Saturday at Turner Field's Gray Parking lot from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The project is in conjunction with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s Take 25 Campaign, a drive that aims to show parents and guardians how, in 25 minutes, they can explain safety issues to their kids.

Besides the safety discussion, parents will receive a free child identification kit — one per child — and the kids will have a number of activities to keep them entertained.

Child abduction is a serious issue with some staggering and sobering statistics according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the U.S. Department of Justice, with 800,000 children being reported missing in the U.S. each year, or  2,000 a day.

Of that yearly number:

• 200,000 are abducted by family members
• 58,000 by non-family members, the primary motive for which is sexual
• 115 being the most serious cases where the child victim is taken by a stranger and killed, held for ransom, or taken with the intention to keep.