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Out of Step with Opinion?
Now… tragic though the abduction of Madeleine McCann is - and I can’t even begin to understand why someone would do it or what her parents must be going through - I have to say that something about this case does concern me.
Surely I can’t be the only person who thinks it’s a bit daft to leave three small children on their own in a building - any building - for any length of time really? Only the way the all the media commentators are going on it seems to be considered perfectly natural and acceptable thing to do, but I can’t help but feel I could never have done it myself (precisely for fear this sort of thing would happen).
I guess I may be in a minority here, but it’s got to be said I was never allowed to remain in even my own home on my own until I was twelve (which I can assure you drove me up the wall but there you are). My mother always claimed - and I have no idea if there’s any truth in this - that it was against the law to leave me, and so if she went out, so did I.
Lord… it was a happy day when I turned twelve I can tell you. The power I felt!
Posted on May 7, 2007 | Filed Under My So-Called Life, The World we Live In
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Response left by Simon on May 8th, 2007
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No, you’re not in a minority (well, I don’t believe so anyway). In this country, you leave kids alone like that and it’s a criminal offence. They were apparently “a few hundred yards away”. So - if they were checking the kids every 30 mins, it must have taken most of that to walk there and back - something’s not right to my mind about that statement. Anyway, there’s also something a bit snooty about the way some papers (and the couple?) have had a pop at the local police - as if Britain’s finest would have solved the case in one day flat. I guess I have to utter the catch-all disclaimer that I hope no harm has become of her, but she wasn’t given much of a chance once her parents declined the listening/babysitting service on offer by the resort.