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Originally Posted by alferret
I am a father to 5, I also have 2 step children. As a parent I am saddened that some people who want to come across as caring actually come across as not giving a sh**.
We should all feel for the parents of Maddy. God only knows what they are going through, and we cant forget all the other unfortunate kids who have gone missing. But there is a difference, Maddy has been abducted, some sicko has taken a 4yr old. Of the many hundreds of children that have gone missing since this happened a very small minority, if none have been abducted. Many of those have been p!$$ed at parents, going through hormonal changes, depression and have decided to take leave of their situation and sod off. (I know I have been in a simular situation and took a walk)
As stated in other posts we all know what the outcome is going to be, of that it a certainty. But the vast majority of the other missing kids will eventually turn up, maybe a bit better off for what they went through maybe not.
I understood this thread to be about Maddy not those other unfortunate ones. Having a pop or arguing over issues that are not relevant isnt helping anyone.
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I don't think that any decent person would not be wishing for the safe return of this child, although unfortunately that's looking more improbable the longer it goes on.
However why is it that mentioning the fact that the parents were disgracefully negligent to go out for a meal and leave such young children alone, or pointing out that the newspaper's sickening competition to show as much grief (sell as many papers) as possible is a bit hypocritical seeing as how they ignore much worse things (check out my link to the 25000 who die each day from hunger, unbelievably dismissed by Mick as "deaths due to accident or natural causes cannot be prevented") seems to cause some people to start foaming at the mouth with rage? These are relevant issues to the case and my mentioning them doesn't mean I care any less about the child's well-being than anyone else, it's just that I haven't been sucked in to the media frenzy.