My heart goes out for this little girl and her parents. It is now 16 or so days since she was taken from her bed and no news is bad news when it has been this long since her abduction. I must really praise the parents for a really intelligent campaign considering what trauma they must be going through. They have used the media's lust for awful and tragic stories to publicize their daughters disappearance and they hope that this will create the exposure to bring forward evidence that the police or private detectives can act on.
I have been reading some blogs by women who are gloating and pointing fingers that these poor parents should not have left their children unattended in a, what was considered to be, secure holiday village. Where do they come from? It is beyond me that people could actually gloat at the hardship of others. Not only that, it is totally without any substance. I have two adult daughters. And I consider myself absolutely lucky and fortunate that they made it to adulthood, despite my bungling.
At any one moment in time, you superior women, your child could have been abducted. You cannot possibly anticipate what some weird and unbalanced, or money grabbing immoral human being can do. There are moments where your child can be taken from you. It can be when you turn around, your child in the seat in the supermarket trolly, to chat to the supermarket manager about something, and your child is gone. Or while you are sitting on a bench, and your child is playing with another child in a playground, and you glance away for a second. Or your child attends a high school and some deranged youngster opens fire and kills 32 people.
I myself had occasion to berate myself as a mother when my then five year old ran into traffic. And yes, it was only the lane in the shopping mall parking area, but I nevertheless died a sudden death when she ran off having spotted our car, and directly into traffic. Or the time my younger daughter, at the age of two, almost drowned in water that came up to her waist, because the supposedly safe inflatable swimming ring was pushing her head under water. And none of the other mothers watching their children even noticed while I ran on water to get to her in time. I had been attending to my elder daughter who was trying to venture into water too deep for her.
This is how quickly your attention can be taken away from your child. At a moment in time, something really horrible can happen. And there is nothing you could have done, that would have made a difference. The universe has decided that you need to experience this horrific burden. So lets not criticize these poor parents. Lets support them and put positive thoughts into the universe for them and the little girl. It could have happened to any one of us parents.
» left by Steve Radford(779) Steve Radford (1 year 235 days ago.)
Good work Anja. It infuriates me when people assign blame to victims for momentarily relaxing their guard. As if we should excuse the criminal because we provided a narrow opening that they of course had to exploit. Let's hope for a happy ending to the Madeleine story. Respond to this comment
» left by Jean Horst(956) Jean Horst (1 year 234 days ago.)
I can't imagine blaming a parent for a psycho snatching their child. Even if a parent did make an error in judgement (And who among parents hasn't???) It wouldn't matter if the evil person wasn't there waiting for it to happen! What a horrible nightmare for these parents! People want to place blame to try to reassure themselves that it would never happen to them. Respond to this comment
» left by Dave Tanguay (1 year 234 days ago.)
Yes Anja, once the damage has been done, you never say "what if?" You say what now? and hope and pray Respond to this comment
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