Madeleine

[Benny]

I know some view on this will be different, but if it means another spider picks it up and it gets somewhere then great.

http://ceop.police.uk/madeleine/madeleine.asp

I have kids the same age and I know in same situation I would be trying everything and would hope the general public would feel the same.

There's no real need to reply, negatively or positively.

[Penfold]

I totally agree.

With children the same age this really struck a cord with me at the time and it's most disturbing and I've given it a lot of head space since. We've regularly been on a Mark Warner holidays and the difference between habits before her abduction and after her abduction (we went a fortnight later -although not to Portugal) was immense.

Before, I would say that the vast majority of parents took  advantage of the listening service which involved putting the children to bed, locking the door and going to dinner. The staff would then listen at each door on a 10 minute basis to check there was no noise/crying and that the children were asleep. If a child was awake then they'd come find you and you'd go back to them. When we went back to MW afterwards this was totally redundant. No parents were leaving their children and took them to the restaurants, paid babysitters etc.

OK it's slightly different in Greece where we were as it's a separate resort, away from the town and enclosed not open and in the town as in Portugal but it was a major change in viewpoint.

That said there has to be something like a million children abducted each year - although many are reunited it's a horrifying statistic.

You know that feeling when you lose your children in a shop or in a park? I don't know how people would cope with a child that has been abducted. Every day you must wonder where they are and what's happening to them. I don't see how you can ever get rest.

If nothing else it's far better to find her dead so at least they can get some closure.

[Jabbs]

plus one

My kids are 16 and 11 now and I cannot even start to imagine the hole that would be made if I lost one.

[Jamoe]

I cannot even start to imagine the hole that would be made if I lost one.

A black hole that you would never escape from :sad:

[Dewey]

Agreed, like you all here, my child is my world and if I lost her... well I don't know how I'd carry on to put it bluntly.