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    I saw the news article Tuesday (12/18/07) on Aruba putting Natalee Holloway’s case (an Alabamian Teenager) on “Cold File” status.
Without ranting on injustice and other issues about this case. I look at my 19 year old daughter and wonder why anyone would send their child off to an island were any person of any age can enter a bar and get drunk? I blame not the parents but the whole worldly view that kids graduating from school should be rewarded by letting them go off and sow their wild oats. This is a lie from Hell and soon more children (and that is what they are. Not young adults.) will end up being the ones planted.

But I do not want to go into all the issues involving this case. I just want us to remember her through the years and not forget that our responsibility to our children do not stop when they get their diplomas. And they board that ship for a Sr. trip to mark their passage to adulthood. Let’s use our common sense, OK?

Also, Let’s do something constructive , boycott Aruba. Don’t go, let your school system know not to allow senior trips there, and contact Game Shows, or the networks they appear on, when you see trips to Aruba offered.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by gabbie427
It is one thing to want ot possibly reward your child with graduating and want to enjoy the last family vacation you all have together before she leaves college. A friend of mine did this with her daughter and the whole family when they went to the Bahamas after she graduated. I thought it was a fun trip for her to give her daughter.

But to let your child go alone like that is irresponsible!!! Just my own thoughts on the issue.

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo