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Parental Responsibility Doesn’t get a Vacation!

Whilst I can be empathic with the parents of missing 3 year old Madeleine McCann, David Hopkins (Managing Director of Mark Warner) is quoted in a BBC report as saying that “(Madeleine’s parents) have done nothing that I’m sure many parents wouldn’t have done.”  Really?  Parents take small children to a foreign country and then leave them in an apartment alone whilst they go out for dinner?  As a parent of two small children I can say that this would never even cross my mind other than as a "wouldn't it be nice" fantasy!

If parents did this at home, they would be liable to face charges of negligence.  Leaving small children alone in a home, even whilst the parent pops out to the corner shop for milk, or some other item that’s urgently required, is frowned upon.  There's too much potential risk to the child.  So why is it then that some parents think it’s ok to leave their children unsupervised at night when abroad?  Surely being in a non-English speaking strange place puts a child more at risk?

I hope that Madeleine is found safe and soon, and I also hope that those parents around the UK who would usually have done the same thing and left their children alone, take a lesson from this terrible incident and realize that making sure small children are supervised is as important abroad – if not more so – than it is at home.

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