I hope so as well, but there are bound to be many false alarms and the Police might get irritated after a while. I wonder whether or not the company will pay for it to be removed when the child turns 18, probably not.
I do not like where this is going either,but,niether you nor I can make the decision about what another parent thinks he needs to do.
I don't want to stop people from protecting their families in the way they choose. However, the problem is no one seems to be talking about the limitations of these things. From this and other biased newspaper articles many people will get the idea that a tracking device could be the answer to their children's safety problems. Someone is going to make a fortune out of people's worst nightmares and I doubt that these products would be that useful in a real crisis situation.
I read somewhere that the US Police did a survey on child/sexual abduction cases and they found that the victims were usually dead within 3 hours. At the right time of day, I doubt that many people would be aware that their children had been abducted within 3 hours of it occurring. The only solution, it seems to me, is to prevent your children from being abducted in the first place by educating them and making sure they are not unaccompanied in public places etc. This chip could make people less vigilant about their children's safety and thus actually increase the risk of them being abducted.