Parents Steal Children's Identities

Just something more worry another concerning your children:

Waldron was one of thousands of children whose identities are stolen every year. With the proliferation of the Internet, identity theft has become easier, experts told ABC NEWS.com. Children are particularly vulnerable to having their identities stolen by family members.

Of the 246,035 cases of identity theft reported to the Federal Trade Commission last year, about 5 percent, or 12,301, involved children.

Children are often the victims of identity thieves because their credit and backgrounds are clean, Social Security numbers are not linked to their owners' names or ages, and victims typically won't realize there is problem for many years, said Linda Foley, founder of the Identity Theft Resource Center.