I think they went off on foot, and he is holding her. Don't get the feeling she is dead...and I'm no psychic. Just perceptive.
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Redesign your bedrooms... have the entire family sleep in one space. Adults closer to the door, children toward the back of the room...The remaining bedrooms can be redesigned as private spaces for adults, and for children's play.
Clothing can be stored in the private rooms for dressing, as well as retreats for communication, relaxation, etc...
But, when it is time for sleep, the entire family sleeps on the same space, so that the kids feel protected, and the parents feel that they have an edge in the event of "intruders".
Aside from that, get a couple of good protective dogs, from one of the various shepherd breeds, get them trained at your home, private lessons, with a good police dog trainer, not your local obedience class chirpie.
The trained dogs sleep in the same room with the rest of you, but nearest the door, and you put up with the dog hair, etc... It really isn't that hard to make one's home a "safe place", it just takes a change in thinking.
We are the most vulnerable when we are asleep, and this is one of the reasons why families usually slept together in "olden times", had good guard dogs, and conducted private activities separate from sleeping. It is just common sense, which we have almost lost in the last 35 years or so...
Our own four children have all "grown and flown", but we still have our two trusty Belgian Malinois to protect us at night, and they sleep right at the foot of our bed, between us and the bedroom door. Since we are now elderly, live in a rural area, and know we would have a long time wait until the local LE could find our driveway, we consider our two dogs our best defense.
We encourage the male, particularly, to treat unexpected strange visitors as potential ax-murderers, and make a very big point of telling the various people that come to the house that while he has never bitten anyone yet, we just aren't sure that he can just keep it to nasty barking, snarling, air-snapping, etc.. (a really good "Cujo" imitation, which he has down pat). In the protection dog jargon his behavior is called "Bark And Hold", but we do not tell folks that he won't actually bite, and just say we don't think he will, but can't be sure!!!!
We tell the meter-reader, the fed-ex guy, etc... to make sure the dogs are in the house before getting out of their vehicles, or to blow their horn so we can call the dogs into the house when they must deliver packeages, read the meter, etc...
Our close friends know that they can come without fear, but they respect our training of the dogs, and will call first before showing up, or honk before getting out of the car, so that we can keep the dogs' protective edge finely honed...
We do have a really nice gun, but prefer not to keep it loaded and ready, and it is a totally dumb idea to do that if you have inquistive younguns around... Better to have a couple of good dogs, and some sensible rules about property rights, safety, and the home being the castle and refuge, the safe place...
If one family reads this, and is ultimately protected, my thoughts put out into the ether will not have been in vain...