Here's Why We Don't See Missing Kids On Milk Cartons Anymore

These days, the idea of a missing person appearing on a milk carton is something of a cliché, and it's probably better known as a sitcom trope than something that happened in real life. However, for a time in the 1980s, it was used as a method to help locate missing children, even if its usefulness was hotly debated in its day.