OUTRAGED PARENTS -- SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS, BUT ...

I have now seen three interviews with eight different Alabama students. These students have been self described as somewhat close friends of the young girl who came up missing in Aruba, Natalee Holloway. One thing has become very self evident -- These may be high school seniors, but their talk, mannerisms and behavior is that of your average 16-year-old teenager.

My point: The parents of all 130 of these CHILDREN (especially the parents of the females) should be held accountable for their incredible lack of good judgment.

Here we have a resort island whose night life consists mainly of casinos/gambling, bars/alcohol, streets/drugs and men looking for sex. Just the sort of place I want to send my teenage daughter who is fresh out of high school in Smalltown, USA. Hell, the hotel the CHILDREN were housed in is a casino/bar.

The legal drinking age in Alabama and the rest of the United States is 21. This senior class decided to go to a foreign country where they could legally drink alcohol, gamble at the casinos and literally party all night with strangers. Are you a parent sending your daughter off to this disaster waiting to happen?

If these young girls were from the streets of Brooklyn, Detroit or LA they may have had a chance, but Anytown, Alabama --- Not likely.

Before you label these statements as chauvinistic, because they portray the females as the more vulnerable of the sexes, consider the following: The vast majority of the predators out there are hunting females. Your daughters are the prey. If you don't recognize that fact, you should get out of the parenting business.

Why can't these parents realize they are the ones supplying the prey for the predators? And remember -- Everyone involved in this trip is quick to point out that the six adults who accompanied these KIDS to Aruba, were not there in the capacity of chaperones. They were just along to lend assistance in case any of the youngsters ran into any problems. What a joke.

Am I surprised that a young girl has turned up missing? Hell no! I am shocked that only ONE incident of this nature occurred on such a trip.
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MISSING CAMDEN CHILDREN FOUND DEAD IN CAR TRUNK

That was the recent headline, after a father of one of the missing children made the gruesome discovery in his own backyard.

During recent TV interviews, the father is blaming the Camden City police for the three needless deaths, because they apparently never opened the trunk of the disabled car, which sat in the backyard, next door to the yard where the children were playing.

Once again, I am sorry about the loss, but another parent that needs to look in the mirror, before laying blame elsewhere.

I realize it is not the politically correct thing to do -- Blame a parent for the death of their child --- but parenthood is more than loving the children and giving them food and shelter.

There is a law in most communities that require an individual to remove the door of an abandoned refrigerator. This law was placed in the books, because a small child once found his way inside the death box and was found three days after the last of the oxygen was consumed.

The trunk of this non-registered, untagged, basically abandoned vehicle was broken in such a manner that the trunk lid would not remain in the UP/OPEN position. A tomb waiting for an occupant.

Now there will be a new law scribed in the books that makes it against yet another law, to leave the trunk lids attached to unregistered vehicles.

We have become a nation that lacks common sense and foresight. We wait for a tragedy (Jessica Lumsford / Elizabeth Smart/ Megan) and then, and it seems ONLY then, we will petition congress to make a law, which will force future generations to pay attention to the obvious.

Someone once said that being a parent is a full time job. They were correct.
That means when you are watching your child play in/by the pool you don't take just a minute to go inside to check the stove or answer the phone. The term FULL TIME does not need interpretation and it does not mean 59 minutes each hour.

Jessica Lumsford's father wasn't home when his daughter was abducted right out of her bedroom. His routine was to stay at his girl friends house all night and return to the trailer of his parents in the morning to wake up Jessica for school then change for work. His obligations passed on to his elderly parents who forgot to lock a door. There was no forced entry.

Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth --- Ed was in the habit of hiring homeless vagrants to come to his somewhat secluded mansion and do handy man jobs. He gave them access keys to his attached garage and to some of his vehicles. All the while Ed had two young daughters on the premises and became shocked and bewildered when one turned up missing. The only shock here is that both of the daughters were not abducted.

WAKE UP, PARENTS !

Somebody better be looking out for your children and that somebody better be Y-O-U !