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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
There we differ i have 2 kids and if i had left them alone when they were little more then baby's i would call my self a bad parent as i think the vast majority of parents would.
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Hear hear mate......
Whatver people say, I think that they are irresponsible parents for doing this. The fact that they are supposedly intelligent enough to know better, and had the money to pay for child care services makes it even worse.
I am not saying that they deserved what happened as a result of their irresponsible parenting, but the majority of my sympathy and sadness lies with Maddie, not her parents.
Some people have said to me that I don't know how they treated their kids normally, so i should not criticise them. I ahave heard others say that they could be loving parents, and I don't deny that they arent.
However, their irresponsibility left an opportunity for their daughter to be abducted/murdered or her dying as a result of an accident. This is not the same as leaving your child upstairs for a few minutes or asleep in her room whilst your in the house as well, albeit in the garden. I can understand people having lapses and making errors of judgement in their parenting skills, but anyone in my opinion who leaves 3 under 4s at home alone (especially in a foreign country), whilst they are out wining and dining in a restaurant, is a poor example to good parenting.
This was a grossly irresponsible thing to do, and I would have no qualms with social services or even the police being involved as soon as they land in London.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
I have two children as well, and since becoming a parent I hope I have learned to be a little less keen to stand in judgement over other parents and their choices.
There is a world of difference between a bad parent, and a good parent who makes a bad decision. I sincerely hope you are never in the position of having to defend yourself having made a bad decision, if the 'vast majority' of parents really are as swift to condemn as you seem to think.
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I don't think leaving under 4 year olds alone whilst you're out wining and dining can be classified as a bad decision. This was not the first time they had done it either, I'd call it poor parenting.
There is a difference between a bad decision and poor parenting, and in my opinion I dont think you can classify consistantly leaving your kids home alone is poor parenting, not bad decisions.