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Originally Posted by gazzae
I can't help thinking that if it had been a single mum on benefits who left her kid at home while she went out then there would be a lot more people criticising her.
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My sentiments exactly.
There was a woman on the news sometime last week saying that its wrong to criticise the parents. She cited a few sceanarios of how a toddler could be snatched from a garden, while the parents are inside, or from the park while the parents turned around for a second.
You cannot compare the manner in which Maddie was abducted to a kid being abducted whilst a parent has lost sight of them for seconds. If maddie had been abducted from her bedroom whilst her parents were downstairs, for example, I would not criticise them at all.
But these are affluent people who could have made child care arrangements for example. Leaving your child (in this case 3 children) alone in a house whilst you're in a restaurant is totally irresponsible.
If Maddie hadnt been abducted we wouldn't have even know about two irresponsible and selfish parents who left their kids at home alone without taking
any precautions to prevent anything whatsoever happening to them. What if they had fallen down the stairs, what if there was a fire, what if one of the kids woke up crying distressed from a nightmare. There were no adults present whatsoever in a villa/apartment where 3 under 5s were asleep. Now thats disgusting behaviour.
Like Gazzae says, if this had been a single parent she would have been vilified in the press, there would be fingers pointing at her for being stupid, people would be saying her kids should be taken into care because she cant be responsible for them.