Abstract
In Reply.— The Larkin Street article quoted the executive director of the American College of Preventive Medicine, William M. Kane, PhD, as saying an estimated 1 million teenagers run away annually and 125 000 to 250 000 adolescents are involved in prostitution. I confirmed these statistics with established sources in the field of adolescent health. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in a 1985 report to Congress, 1 estimated the number of runaway youth at more than one million in the course of the year. The figure is based on the 1976 National Statistical Survey on Runaway Youth 2 and is updated based upon the estimates of knowledgeable experts in the field. In 1983, the DHHS Office of the Inspector General conducted a nationwide sample study, 3 which from survey responses estimated 558 000 runaway and homeless youth in the United States. The report concluded as follows: Both
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