One marked difference between our parents' generation and ours is the heightened public awareness nowadays of the reality that there are people out there seeking to abduct children.
And while we understand that it can happen anywhere for a wide variety of reasons, the context behind the most common motivation for kidnappers can vary from place to place.
According to CNN, one significant side effect of the one-child policy that was the law of the land in China for decades was the escalation of a black market for infant boys within the nation.
And it's for that reason that you're more likely to hear of people resurfacing years after they were first abducted there than you will stateside.
But as we'll see in a recent case where desperate parents found their lost child after over a decade of searching, it's entirely possible for an abducted child to grow up there without ever knowing what happened to them.