[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by freezin

No, it's never "safe" but it happens. I'm a parent of four children, all are happy and healthy, despite not having a perfect mother, although I never actually left them alone to go out socially. But my parents regularly left me asleep when I was as old as Madeleine to go to the pub near their house and my husband's parents did the same with their 8 children and went considerably further living in a very isolated house. Talking to friends this seems to have been quite common in previous generations and still happens a lot more than one would believe reading blogs and message boards now.

But children become more "precious" with each generation it seems.

The black and white minstrel show, comedians being sexist and racist all things that used to occur, does not mean it is acceptable though.......