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P.S.
If she should happen to be rescued, the family should be billed for every penny…..If she is not found, the family still needs to be charged for all money spent.
That's a valid criticism and certainly worthy of concern.
P.S. again....
Is there any law there against the parents for child endangerment?
Just asking because I don’t know.
Driving to work is a dangerous quest for many.
I hope to God she is saved and the parents are presented with a bill for the emergency services necessary to find her.
I blame terrible parenting. A kid that age isn’t old enough to weigh the risks of something like this and shouldn’t be allowed to undertake it.
She’s near Antarctica. That water is cold.
So have I. I was just in the car listening to the radio with the station I had on tearing her and her family apart for letting her do this. I had to turn it off. That’s a discussion that will never have an ending. God bless and protect her until she is rescued.
Wishing her a safe return.
I respect those who follow their dreams.
"I want to sail around the world mommy!" "Really, Oh OK dear, I'm certainly not the kind of parent to stand in the way of a child's dream! Here's our sail boat honey. Keep your cell charged"
This is one of the reasons children have parents! To freaking protect them from themselves! "Hey Mommy, I want to go up into the outer atmosphere with a rocket on my back! Can I please? It's my dream!"
Adults plan their whole freaking lives for this kind of journey! And there is a reason for that! It's called maturity and experience! Yes, maturity and experience seem to be a dirty word to a kid! But that is what separates a child from an adult! Sending off a 16 year old to sail alone around the world "Just cause she wants to" (why? So she can post it on her facebook??) is the epitome of adult neglect!
Growing up means learning from our mistakes; I just hope shes doesn’t pay the ultimate price for hers.
My dad who grew up in the 30's and early 40's would spend the summers him and his brother on the rivers of East Tennessee. My uncle or my grandfather would come up and check on them on the weekends. No one though about it being dangerous or neglect. It was a kids dream.
Either one of us my dad or later myself could have gotten seriously injured or killed in doing so. My dad would also w on weekends while in school ride a bicycly about 45 miles to camp out overnight and return home another 45 miles the next day. But the experience stays with you. So does training and I had been taught how to take care of myself camping and even hiking alone. I was taught what was safe, do this or that when this or that goes wrong. It helps you acquire self reliance and confidence on yourself. I can see circumstances where a teenager with the right training and talent could sail alone especially with today's technology in communications and navigation. Not to mention today's boats.
Now a question for the posters blaming and blasting the parents. What kind of cars do you let your kids drive? How about Motorcycles like Crotch Rockets perhaps? Where do you allow them to drive?
I by no means will say the sea can not be brutally dangerous. Been there done that and about bought the farm a few times running 35 and 50 footers in the Navy. I've see seas about break over a carrier flightdeck. But I was still safer there or even on the boats I worked on while anchored in ports than I was back in Norfolk on liberty or living off base driving to the yards every day.
The kid would have to have her act together to make it past the first few nights at sea alone. The being alone in itself is a mental challenge not many adults can handle.
Her parents should be sent a bill.