The horror of baby snatching...Can you imagine losing your child like that?
By tjades
@tjades (3590)
Jamaica
May 7, 2008 12:21pm CST
I just saw a news item where the mother was crying and pleading for assistance to find her child.
The little boy (no older than five) was in a room at her home when she went to check on him and found him missing. She has not seen him since but received information that he was seen in another parish.
That is just horrible for someone's child to be snatched like that. I think many times cases like this tend to turn out pointing at the other parent of the child who wants costody.
It must be tormenting to the child to become a tug-of-war element in relationships that go sour. Why cant adults act like adults and refrain from using the child to try and hurt the other?
What are your views here?
Do you see any justification in ever involving the child in a sqaubble like this?
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5 responses
@crusaders (36)
• Philippines
8 May 08
bet you're right.....at least the child is in the hand of the other parent if thats what you are saying. But there is much worse than that........children just get reported to be gone, snatched, kidnapped... cause of family feud, parental problems??? naah perpetrators take children's internal organs and sell it...does it happen often in ur country.??? hope not that worse........findpeace.good day
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
8 May 08
I cannot imagine losing my child in that way. I would be devastated if that ever happened to my son. I would never have him involved in any disagreements or whatever that goes on between my husband and I - I think that is so childish and stupid IMO.
@tjades (3590)
• Jamaica
8 May 08
And that it is Maddy. Those who engage in this sort of tossle and hurt the child like this werent (in my opinion) really ready for a relationship and definately not for a child. Its just wrong to use a child as the rope in a tug of war.
hanks for sharing Maddy. 
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
8 May 08
It's a shame because it's the child that suffers the most. When my sister (who has custody) was going through her divorce her husband threatened to take (kidnap) their child out of the US and take her to Italy and he told her she would never ever see her daughter again. I helped my sister do a few things to try and prevent this, like fingerprinting her at the police station, take photos and a short video of her including birthmarks and any scars, apply for a passport and social security number so that he could not apply for one - your only allowed to have one. DNA sample (lock of hair). We also reported this to the center of missing and exploited children and they put an alert on all airline computers should her name come up a red flag notifies the authorities. This helped my sister feel a little better knowing she took some precautions to prevent this for happening.
@tjades (3590)
• Jamaica
8 May 08
Wow. Good and thorough course of action there Howard. Now that is something I would never had thought about other than to maybe report the threat to the authorities.
I love that. Your sis must be eternally grateful to you for standing by her like that. Thanks for sharing. (lol)
@kbourgerie (8780)
• United States
8 May 08
No, its detrimental to the child. When my ex and I were having problems I never took them from him, but I did tend to talk badly about him. I quickly learned that it wasn't to my children's advantage to do that. It caused them to resent me as much as it caused them to resent him. I don't do that anymore.
@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
7 May 08
If two adults can't get along with each other, there is no reason to make the children suffer.. If is hard enough on them to be losing a mom or a dad, but to be stuck in the middle of a custody battle is not right.. Adults should learn to act more mature, but normally don't when going through a divorce or breakup.. I can only hope that it is the father who has the child and not someone else who has intentions of harming the child..
