Federal felony for international abduction still relatively new 5. Most countries are not parties to the Hague Convention 6. Differences in the implementation and interpretation of the Hague Convention leads to varying return rates by party country. Legal barriers in many other countries to recovering and returning the child. B. A parent with close ties to another country is one of six risk profiles for abduction.
Many abductors fit more than one profile.
Therefore, in cases at risk for international child abduction, the country to which the child is likely to be abducted is highly predictable. More often than not, the abductor and the left-behind parent are of different nationalities, ethnicities, and religions. The left-behind parent is more likely to have a higher income and to be employed compared to the abducting parent. More than half ofthe abductors and left-behind parents are in their thirties. Family violence is characteristic of most of these families.