Posted on 06/08/2010 2:29:16 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
The center is meant to help the families of missing persons by providing support to families of the missing and by reducing the challenges they face, challenges that Beth Holloway says she dealt with when her own daughter disappeared.
She also hopes it will prevent more missing persons cases by providing travel safety tips and advice for college and high school students.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Beth Holloway Twitty and husband divorced. John Ramsey and Beth have been romantically involved since January 2007.
It was a class trip.
Personally, I find your and some other comments on this thread a disgrace...
Unless you put your child under lock and key, it could happen to ANYONE.
Yes. It was a chaperoned class trip-—a tradition for that high school. The kids had some freedoms, but they were not simply there on their own.
I agree.
The article mentioned that they are no longer involved.
Thanks.
Natalee's stepfather was Jug Twitty.
After Beth & Dave Holloway divorced, Jug Twitty married Beth; about a year after Natalee disappeared he divorced Beth and for a short while she was seeing John Ramsey, but not anymore.
Not just these days.... what happened to Natalie is sad, but there is a whole lot of young, naive, girls who do the same thing and fortunately they return home alive....
and in days past too. Part of a parent's job is to obsessively drill basic paranoid survival tactics into their kids. This is especially true with daughters. Even when parents do everything right, kids can and do act stupidly.
Let’s not forget “the chaperones”.
Many of these ill-conceived “safe” vacations are sold to gullible parents because they are “chaperoned”
The kids look at mom & dad with glee - “everyone is going!” “Mrs. B is the chaperone!” “There will be 5 adults going along as chaperones! Everything is TOTALLY cool and safe and stuff...”
And then, of course, as it turns out - the “chaperones” are likely in worse shape than the kids.
Heck - they’re nowhere to be seen!
I totally agree with you, anyone who believes this is Beth's fault simply has NO idea about the social lives of America's young college students; and going on a chaperoned class trip to Aruba along with the rest of your high school class is nothing to condemn the parents about.
The binge drinking and ready availability of drugs on campuses across the nation is what is a DISGRACE.
You nailed it. I think the mom is operating out of guilt.
I would not have allowed my daughter to go on this trip. However, it was a chaperoned high school trip. I can see how, if this kid had always been responsible, and if there was was heavy lobbying from, for example, the spouse and or other parent, this was allowed to happen.
I think your comments are a disgrace and judgemental. Parents are responsible for their children, period. End of discussion. I would never let my child leave this country without me. There is no law that says you have to turn your kid over to strangers.
She dissapeared 5 days after graduating from high school, so she was hardly one of "America's young college students".
Joran Van der Sloot was only 17 years-old when Natalie and her other school friends met him.
She was no match for his sociopathic tendencies and Natalie could have been one of our daughters....raised in a broken home or a stable one....with the excitement of being on an exotic trip and daring to drink with her peers.
I thank God every day that I could not afford such indulgences for my children - and - on reflection so are they.
“Oh, sorry, I did not realize it was Natalie’s fault that she was drugged...”
How do you know alcohol and drugs were forced upon her?
I’ll go there....DON’T let your YOUNG CHILDREN go to a FOREIGN COUNTRY on SPRING BREAK!!
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