You buckle them into car seats, make sure they wear a helmet when riding their bikes and keep a first-aid kit on hand always. As a parent, you do everything you can to guard your children’s physical safety, but do you know how to protect them from identity theft? How Common Is Child Identity Theft? Over 15,000 of the identity theft complaints to the Federal Trade Commission in 2016 affected children and teens (anyone age 19 and under), which represents 4% of all identity theft complaints for the year. The Identity Theft Resource Center, which tracks identity theft and data breach statistics, also reports that 4.4% of the identity theft victim…
