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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
what about letting your daughter drink at 16 and she chokes to death on vomit, what about letting her go to a concert at 17 with her pals and she takes a dodgy E - letting your 7 year old son go to the local park and he gets abducted on his way home?
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There are necessary nominal risks involved in letting your children grow up and become more independent, just as there are necessary nominal risks in life. We have electrical appliances in our homes although there's a risk that they will start a fire; we have smoke detectors to minimize the risk that a fire will end in a death
because a responsible adult will or should know what to do in the event of a fire.
Leaving a 3 year old (and two younger children) ALONE in an apartment on holiday is not a necessary nominal risk and the fact is that most people simply would not do it, despite your insistence otherwise. I can't figure out if you're so adamant that it's normal for "McCann reasons"... or because it's something you've done in the past and you don't want to think of it as poor parenting?