Parents Abandon Son, 10, at Airport to Catch Flight After His Passport Expired’

Metro (U.K.) ^ | 8/1 | Luke Alsford

[nickcarraway]

You can't coddle these kids forever.

Yes, the parents should have gotten a new passport. But the passport was valid when he entered Spain. Wouldn't the better part of valor in this case have been to let the boy go with his parents. As long as they are convinced it was the boy in the passport, why is it helpful to keep him in Spain. they don't want to make him a ward of the state. Just send him on his way.

[Red Badger]

Dang! They almost got away!..................

[George from New England]

Out of control big brother
Sanity is dead

[coloradan]

Because Papers Please!!

Passports used to be a courtesy to simplify international travel. Now they’re not only mandatory*, but, 1 second after their expiry moment, they are not longer recognized as valid identification or anything.

*Except for illegal immigrants

[Fledermaus]

KEVIN!!!

[FreedomNotSafety]

If I were to abandon my kid, I would have went to the cab stand and paid his way to the relative.

OTOH any of my kids would have gamed this like a champ. It would have cost me at least a $100 at the airport and a new gaming system at home but they would have handled it.

[johniegrad]

No mention of names, destination, country of origin. Any idea why?

[nickcarraway]

I flew across country when I was in first grade. But I suppose every child is not up to it, maybe some that are teenagers aren’t.

[IYAS9YAS]

So, the parents were not native Spaniards. They were going to their home country on a visit and left the kid behind at the airport in order to make their flight. No names given. I’m gonna say Muslim.

[bunkerhill7]

The waif in Spain calls mainly to the plane.

[Vigilanteman]

Why do you suppose the journalist here refuses to identify the home country of the parents?

[Veto!]

Great dad.

My dad got me up in a plane when I was in grade school. We flew from Chicago to Milwaukee, where he had business, and flew back the same day. He wanted me to love flying like he did. I do, been to many countries including Turkey and Singapore.

Have flown with my kids too, from the time they were about 6 years old. Would I ditch one in an airport?? Absolutely not. Those rotten parents should be investigated for other cruelty.

[dfwgator]

“Keep the change, ya filthy animal!”

[mewzilla]

FWIW, with child trafficking concerns, for once I side with the state.

[MplsSteve]

“We flew from Chicago to Milwaukee...”

That had to have been a short flight. How long - 10-15 Minutes?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

So, they went on vacation to their home country???

I bet you they have claimed asylum in their new country, possibly saying they are in fear of being killed if they go back to their home country yet they continually go back for vacations and whatnot.

[Veto!]

That was a very long time ago before jets. Probably a DC-3.

Took maybe an hour.

[Salvey]

At least they didn’t take him into the bathroom and drown him, as that woman did to her dog at Orlando airport last spring.

[dljordan]

“The waif in Spain calls mainly to the plane.”

Vainly to the plane.

[Zhang Fei]

[Great dad.

My dad got me up in a plane when I was in grade school. We flew from Chicago to Milwaukee, where he had business, and flew back the same day. He wanted me to love flying like he did. I do, been to many countries including Turkey and Singapore.

Have flown with my kids too, from the time they were about 6 years old. Would I ditch one in an airport?? Absolutely not. Those rotten parents should be investigated for other cruelty.]

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Stand by Me was a documentary. At 10, kids were running around all over the place unaccompanied. The laws about needing round-the-clock adult supervision of kids under 13 accomplished one thing - sub-replacement birth rates. What was legislated to curb black birth rates weren’t enforced for blacks, but managed to curb everyone else’s.