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Well, I don't generally act as advocate for the nanny-state, but sometimes action is called for. The children are being ripped from the loving arms of a mother who voluntarily zipped off on an Italian holiday with her boyfriend, leaving her 15 year old daughter solely responsible for herself and 5 preteens.

As has been said, this isn't like she went off for a date, or even an overnight trip. Two weeks. One 15-y-o girl totally responsible for the care and feeding of those children. Meals, bathtime, washing clothes, cleaning up, getting off to school, emergency medical care, on and on. Not to mention the dangers she left them open to.

That just isn't right, and if I had lived next door to this crap, I would have called it in, too.

Not to mention that when the police showed up the 15 year old was no where to be found, but her boyfriend and pal were going in and out of the house.

So in essence, the kids were left in the care of a 12 year old. Nice.

"The children are being ripped from the loving arms of a mother who voluntarily zipped off on an Italian holiday with her boyfriend".

The above statement appears contradictory. The children were "RIPPED FROM..." (indicates an involuntary action) the loving(?) arms of a mother who VOLUNTARILY zipped off? There was no ripping; it was clearly 100% voluntary (I may be misinterpreting your comment, though).