Parents arrested after leaving 17 year old son behind on holiday

chanjy said:
Just read this about a British family on holiday in Spain

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ed-for-abandoning-teenage-son-in-Majorca.html

Thoughts?

If a 17 year old behaves that badly and refuses to leave the hotel with the rest of the family, personally I think he deserves to be left behind and learn a lesson.

Can't believe the couple were arrested and the other kids taken away from them!
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If you were just talking refused to come to the beach so gets left at home, sure.

Leaving a 17 year old in a foreign country on his own, with presumably no way of getting home, is a little extreme.
 
Whether or not he's a gobby little **** ultimately he is not legally an adult, he's 17. He is their responsibility. Teaching him a lesson by leaving him in another country is ridiculous.
 
Don't know the full details, but I imagine the parents didn't come to this point without a decent reason.

In some countries (eg. Scotland) he would be considered an adult!
 
Kenai said:
Leaving a 17 year old in a foreign country on his own, with presumably no way of getting home, is a little extreme.
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Not just little but extreme. He's not an adult and they've failed in their parental responsibility to him. They deserve everything that is coming their way.
 
Without knowing all the facts, after reading the article. It sounds as if the parents had enough of their sons behaviour and had reached breaking point?
 
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Cosimo said:
Not just little but extreme. He's not an adult and they've failed in their parental responsibility to him. They deserve everything that is coming their way.
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I'm assuming the child didn't want to go with the parents. Why shouldn't the parents let the little *** do what he/she wants?

After all if a 16 year old wants to get married or join the army and the parents allow that then it's perfectly fine, why is it suddenly not fine if parents decide that the child who doesn't want to come to the airport with them can do just that?

At 17 I had a bank account and some money, if the child has a passport then they should be able to get home just fine.
 
I suppose the problem is legally he's still a child. If it had been an 8 year old they left behind their wouldnt be any debate.

at 17 though it goes against the grain a bit when they go off the Magaluf drinking all week by themselves.
 
In the eyes of the law he is a child and it sounds like he was acting like one too. Seems fair enough, he is still their responsibility until he reaches 18 and they need to own that fact not wash their hands of it. Perhaps their approach is indicative to why he sounds like a little **** too.
 
My mother would've given me a good clout round the head and dragged me with her kicking and screaming, whether I liked it or not.

Kids have it too easy nowadays.
 
Depends on the circumstances IMO.

They also had 3 other younger children with them to look after - would it have been more acceptable for them to miss their flight and cost an absolute fortune for replacement flights and extra accommodation (assuming they could find some which was suitable at such short notice)?

As long as they lent the little **** enough money for a bus to the airport and his flight home then fair play to them - it's what I'd be inclined to do in a similar situation.
 
cant you move out and live an independent life away from your parents at sixteen ? can't you even kick your kids out at sixteen ?
 
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