actually that was Shawn's doing, not his parents! He wanted to gp on Oprah and he wanted his story told ASAP so as to help people understand we need to be paying more attn tomissing kids out there and to help if see a strange situation.
Shawn's parents have always been on the media since he went missing. This is nothing new.
I think no one should judge the parents decisions or lack of decisions seeing they have no clue what kind of faily the Aker's are and what they have gone through these past 4 years.
Maybe they are taking the advice of the experts.....and Shawn's parents are more interested in making money????