If a desperately poor single mother had left the three children alone?

Question

while she went out with her mates

(or a young couple who had nothing and lived on a council estate)

Do you think the public would have been as sympathetic to them as they are to the middle class professional McCanns?

Somehow I think not.

brunelscooby - sorry but you're being very conservative and closed minded about this - for one thing being poor does not mean you are "sitting on you *** claiming every benefit under the sun"!!! My other half works 12 hours days and two jobs while I stay home to care for our baby and we can barely afford to eat as he is a low wage earner!!! He'd love to go back to college and retrain but can't get funding.

Oh and "going to university" does not guarantee you a good job - if that was the case then loads of UK graduates (like me for the last few years) wouldn't be working in call centres on £6 ph. Money begets money, there are not enough high profile jobs out there for everyone to have one and even if you get an education and work hard it does not guarantee you money and comfort. This is reality. Look around you and you will find it to be true.

Answer 1

It goes back to the myth that you need tons of money to raise a kid.
Money is NOT the number one thing. Love definitely is though. You can be an excellent parent whether you are rich or poor. You can also be a horrible parent...
Child neglect and abuse affects everyone regardless of social class. People need to stop seeing people who have wealth and/or fame as "Gods". Because they aren't.
I get a kick out of the people who say the McCann couple should have our sympathies. No, they shouldn't. Maddie should have our sympathies.
These are the same people who would more than likely throw a hissy fit if they were at a restaurant and they knew the couple at the table next to them left their children unsupervised. But, since it is the McCann's who have been glorified as suffering parents in the media, then it is a-okay.
There are NO exceptions for child neglect.
Good luck!

Answer 2

she would also be called a liar if she did not tell the truth.

The McCanns keep trying to say they were only fifty yards away - In the middle of the swimming pool then!!! The police and other people around the apartments talk of it being five minutes walk away!!!

But sadly it is no longer about Madeleine but about the McCann family self promoting media circus. They are living on charity money, say they will not go home or return to their jobs. Would any of that happen with a poor person - of course not.

Tragically it is looking more and more likely that the little girl is dead. What ever the McCanns try and say to justify leaving ALL THREE children at risk if they had taken the proper care of her as is legally required in both Portugal and the UK Madeleine would still be there alive and well.

They will have to live with that for the rest of their lives!

Answer 3

Social Services would have dragged those kids off her & into care before you could say "Benefits". Money talks in all things. Just because the McCanns are professional people they are assumed to have a correctly functioning moral compass but as we all know this does not appear to be the case.

Answer 4

It is a foregone conclusion that if the McCanns were working class parents who lived on a council estate, that the tabloid press would have turned them into villains. The fact that they are both doctors and left their children is abhorrent.
They are health care professionals and should be well versed in terms of the law in relation to neglect of children. If this had happened in this country they would be at the top of the suspect list immediately until evidence eliminated them. They would also be subject of prosecution in relation to the neglect of all three children. Children go missing in this world on a daily basis... where is the thousands of column inches for them in the press. The fact that this couple are educated and able to afford childcare is beyond belief.

Answer 5

When my oldest boy was 4, my daughter 2 years 6 months and my youngest son 14 month we went on summer holiday in a family holiday camp. Could not afford to go abroad so spent a week in Clacton. We went to the beach and childrens play area during the day WITH our children, and at night we went to the family club WITH the children until the eldest was too tired then we ALL went back to the chalet. NEVER at any time did we leave the children alone or with anyone else. Did it 'cramp our style' NO. If you want children then you change your lifestyle to fit in with the childrens needs and not your own.

I hope when this international McCanns circus dies down and they return home, that the local social services do whats best for the younger two children, and indeed Madeliene if she is ever found, and relieve the McCanns of what is obviously an inconvenience to them - their children !

Lastly to anyone on Yahoo answers who parrots 'why cant we leave the poor McCanns alone' - No we cant because we care too much to leave people like that to get away with it.

Answer 6

There was actually a case a few years ago where a single mum, nipped out to see a relative, and while she was away something happened to the kid.

The press coverage?

Something like.............

"Evil knocked up teenage slu.t (on benefits) neglects defenceless child to go off to relative - Social services called."

Answer 7

no, thinking about it now i think they would have been much harder on a poorer parent.
i like to think that everyone is equal and im not usually one for saying these people get treated better/worse then others but thinking about it even i would blame the parent more if they were lower class, i blame the mccanns a little but i think i would blame a poorer person more, and i dont know why!!!!

i think most people would!, i think its because there is a steriotypical lower class person in everyones head which is irrisponsibe and has no respect for the law, which, to be honest is sometimes correct but not all the time so you cant use this steriotype for all lower class people, just goes to show that steriotyping is never right!!!

Answer 8

No the case would have been less glamorous for the media blood-suckers.

What if she had wandered into the road & been hit by a car?

Would all Answers hyenas have been in the slightest interested?

Answer 9

they wud e in trouble with social services and the kids wud be taken away

i think the mccanns shud be prosecuted - they should have never left the kids alone. they are rich enough to find someone to look after them so thats what they shud have done.

and if they wanted the kids to be in the appartment then maybe they shundt hav gon out.

Answer 10

I think the public would definitely be different.
And to scooby-doo your so far up your **** you could be in the McCann clan.
It maybe peoples own decision to contribute but it's under FALSE pretences they are collecting it for.
Sounds like you've had a drink in the Tapas bar and to sober up.