The amber alert should not be used in custody disputes.

For crying out loud. Time to bubble wrap the kids...

to custody argument daily informer.

When I hear that the suspect is a non-custodial parent, I completely disregard the Amber Alert in my mind. We have no idea the whys or what nots in the custody issue... that said, in cases like this where the non-custodial parent is a middle eastern citizen, there is some risk of flight to that country where it is near impossible to get the child back even with a court order. That does change things a little bit in my mind.

Any time a parent without custody rights picks up a kid when they aren't supposed to and disappears that is a very good reason for an amber alert. A person involved in a custody dispute has decided to ignore court orders and has decided to place themselves above the law and take things into their own hands. Anyone willing to disregard the law because they feel it is their right to have their kids and nobody else can say otherwise is exactly the kind of person that may make extreme decisions such as in the Powell case or remember Sky Metalwala? Both involved custody disputes - 1 resuled in dead kids, the other who knows - maybe another dead kid.

If the female ex is late in droping a child off per the parenting plan the male counter part cant issue a "amber alert" The "other parent" is still a parent!!

If she is "late dropping off a child" then she is a custodial parent. That is very different from a non-custodial parent kidnapping a child.

This kid would have been in Egypt in short order otherwise. A high school friend of mine married a Saudi National shortly after graduation, had a daughter, then a divorce. She's basically had to hide from her ex for a decade to keep him from abducting the little girl and taking her away to the middle east. The amber alert system should be supported!

There is no way you can argue against the Amber Alert logically. O-town hit the nail right on the head with this one. Willer and WA, I can't for the life of me, understand why you have any problem with it. The very fact that so many alerts occur is all the more reason to keep doing it. The very fact that so many murder-suicides happen is reasonable cause to sound the alarm. I'm glad the kid is safe and hope the father burns for this one.

The problem I have with issuing an Amber alert in most custodial cases is that it has been proven over time to be abused by vindicitve parents. An Amber alert should be an "all hands on deck" moment. I'm with my kid at a mall and someone takes him. My child wasn't in bed when I checke don them in the morning and the window's open... Or, in this case, there is substantial risk of the suspect fleeing the country with the child. In MOST custodial disuputes, the non-custodial parent feels jilted by the divorce court, freaks out for a while, and takes the kid. In almost every instance the non custodial parent comes to their senses. It is EXTREMELY rare that you get a Josh Powell kind of case... and in that event, the Amber alert system would not have made a difference.

Its takes a village.