India returns runaway Pakistani boys to their families

Two boys who ran away from home and sneaked across the heavily guarded Indian border were reunited with their families in Pakistan on Friday after Indian authorities deported them.

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As more families face economic hardships, experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including many under 13.

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An increase in the number of youths running away from home is discussed in this New York Times piece.

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Excerpt: At first, the parents of the missing 12-year-old Naperville boy, David Moosemiller, thought that sleep walking was to blame for his disappearance in the middle of the night. But police now say he was a runaway.

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Parents Kay and Jack Corrodi insist that 16-year-old twin daughters Morgan and Mary are mentally handicapped; police disagree and (so far) have not issued an Amber alert. The girls had 7 myspace accounts and may have hooked up with someone they met online.

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The Johns: From BMWs to Bicycles The arrested johns were identified by their name, the act they allegedly agreed to and the price and brought back to the booking tent where they were searched and swabbed for DNA.

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An experiment to raise awareness about the plight of missing children found that a majority of people did not notice or stop to help a little girl after seeing her face on a missing person poster a few feet away.

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These teens could be in Nevada..maybe someone will see their van..

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What has the world come to when 15 year olds are dating 13 year olds? And then they run away? Wow, whta love.

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The Runaways have come up against their fair share of tough customers. But now superstar writer Joss Whedon is taking the Runaways back… to 1907. New friends, new enemies and new teammates are what may lie in wait for them in their time hopping adventure.

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