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Term Definition Parental Kidnapping - the act of one parent illegally taking a child in violation of a court order.
Application in Divorce Parental rights do not include illegal removing a child to outflank a custody arrangement approved by a court.

Parental kidnapping is a crime. According to the Department of Justice, some 200,000 children disappeared in America; some were taken abroad.

The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (children from abroad under the Hague Convention.

See also Hague Convention; PKPA; ICARA; NCMEC.