not 100% but there are sure a lot of them where this is the case. I recall one where the dad left the baby in the car at a gas station at like 3 am and then the car was stolen with the baby inside. so that one wasn't but that was all kinds of stupid. the kid was found safe though.

we would have a lot less amber alerts if families stayed together though, or maybe we would have the same amount just more legitimate ones.

Many times the father actually has legal rights to take the kids too, because there is no custody agreement in place yet. Cops basically just flip out if a male takes the kids without the blessing of the female.

What really sucks is that all the really serious cases of kidnapping are becoming less noticed because the system gets diluted with child custody disputes. It's like with the sex offender registry, and adding more and more cases to it, including misdemeanor "ass slapping" type cases or guys have slightly underage girlfriends.

That is the whole point of an amber alert though. The system is used when they have an ID on a suspect or a vehicle.

Amber alerts are used exclusively by the powers that be to spread scary sounding stories and motivate us to turn in random people we really know nothing about to them like the trained monkey snitches that we are. Kind of like the people in Farenheit 451.

I don't buy it.