If I were to hit my wife, no one would have trouble seeing that as an assault or a criminal act. When a child does the same thing to a sibling, the exact same act will be construed as a squabble, a fight or an altercation.

That certainly does not parallel previous estimates. It may be that communities where blacks live tend to be heavily policed. Black parents may rely upon police more (than other groups) when their kids go missing. There also may be simply more missing-child episodes among black families.

These are very interesting and important statistics. This shows a pretty dramatic over-representation of black kids.

There's been a decline in the double standard. That's why you're seeing more of these cases.

Sometimes this behavior becomes institutionalized. It's a culture that gets established, and something very radical needs to be done like closing down and trying to start anew.

They are a group of kids who do not exercise very good judgment about who it is wise to have sexual relationships with,