Jeeper

I don't have kids so i've no idea but I think 4 years old is still too young for kids to be out in public places on their own? Regardless of dodgy people.
Other things may bring them to harm.

Hello.Kitty

yup, at that age they still obey what adults tell them - whichever adult (apart from their mum ... that's the tragedy.

I'd love to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but just yesterday, for example, a chap was trying to coax my daughter to come close to him and when she did - and before I could get to her - he had swept her up and was cuddling, kissing and stroking her. Completely inappropriate. That gets a big fat "F*** off and don't even look at her" in my books. Even she was looking uncomfortable at that point, and yet, being the innocent creature that toddlers are, she'd run to a friendly face again.

I don't want to fall into the trap of being so fearful and paranoid that the child isn't allowed to do anything, but I do feel that I'm going to have to teach her to say a firm "no" to people who want to pick her up, especially when they don't even ask.

Yes, children should have their childhood, but it's up to their parents to make sure they do so safely.

Blue Cat

totally agree with you on that

shiva

yes and in an ideal society there wouldnt be child rapists either so your point is what exactly?

Jeeper

I think that was more or less her point lol....

Meow

It was. The saddest thing is that people have to protect their children so much, not that these parents apparently weren't doing so.

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shiva

lol should perhaps have read your post again before posting.

TGFKASE

I could never get the hang of double negatives... What u trying to say????

MacScot

Agree with you on that one...I was an expert witness in a case in north Queensland and was asked the question "is it not a fact that this may not be correct in this instance?" I said no but the judge immediately corrected me (in context) and said that I meant to say yes ! (meaning yes, it is not a fact !)

Roadking

Just watched the movie The Lonely Bones, very disturbing and brings to question the whole idea of revenge/justice. Without spoiling, the end left me feeling annoyed that "justice" wasn't seen to be done.

Well worth watching.

Autonomy

Lovely Bones... the book (as usual) is better... in fact, flipping brilliant. Much, much darker and deeper than the movie...

littlejimmy

Strange, innit, because in almost every Hollywood movie, the baddie dies horribly in the end as if to enact some kind of summary justice.

Madam Medusa

i actually thought this was one film they had done really well...i couldn't quite see how the film would work, but they did a good job and stuck pretty true to the book...

MM, xx

Eva

The saddest thing 'reputedly' is that children are murdered/abused by family members.The 'stranger danger' is far less common than being harmed by a known and trusted personality.

shakh your bootie

I fear we are but naked apes, my dear. Infanticide is by no means unheard of amongst our primate cousins:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0514121651.htm

Certainly the majority of people can agree the construction of a vector of moral imperative that points away from infanticide - but that is only a majority. There remains a minority of psychological configurations that can justify destruction of an infant's life.

To my mind, we act with tremendous generosity in suffering such abberations to live. Myra Hindley, in her incarceration, achieved precisely what - a love affair with a prison officer, a conversion to Roman Catholicism and authorship of an unpublished autobiography. Stumbling acts that constitute a human life - but the rights that she were granted to perform them were precisely what she denied to her victims.

Perhaps we let these people live so that we can feel better about ourselves.