Can You Imagine If This Happened in the US?

[Minimalist]

The diaper-sniffers and child fetishists would be screaming for blood!

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2012061...51H82.html

LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife got home from lunch with friends at a pub in the English countryside to discover they forgot something: 8-year-old daughter Nancy.

[frankiej]

Ah, yes. I read about this the other day. I think it was on purpose.
They probably got bored of their child and wanted a new one. Kind of like getting bored with your pony... oh wait, us commoners don't have ponies...

[Annik]

My mom accidentally left my brother somewhere before I was born. It wasn't that big a deal, I don't think, but that was almost 22 years ago.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Can happen to anyone:

My favourite was the time I stopped at the Roadhouse at Cocklebiddy, on the Nullabor Plain. Inside was a small child (about 4) eating a large ice cream. Apparently its family were traveling in convoy,and said little nose miner got "left behind" (if you'll excuse the expression) A not uncommon even ,with an embarrassed family usually returning after discovering their loss at the next stop,which may be a few hundred miles..

http://www.nullarbornet.com.au/towns/cocklebiddy.html

[Napoléon]

I read this myself. I think the media is going a little overboard. Like pad said, it can happen to anyone. Especially if you're attention is drawn away because you are entertaining lots of guests. As they left Samantha thought that the girl had got in the car with her dad and Cameron, in another car, thought the girl was with her mother. But the girl had wandered off to the toilet. Shocker.

[WhatIfGodWasJustAMyth]

I quit.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

My mom accidentally left my brother somewhere before I was born. It wasn't that big a deal, I don't think, but that was almost 22 years ago.

I guess it depends on whether she found him. If not,I'd say her attitude was a little casual

[Minimalist]

My mom accidentally left my brother somewhere before I was born. It wasn't that big a deal, I don't think, but that was almost 22 years ago.

I guess it depends on whether she found him. If not,I'd say her attitude was a little casual

[NoraBrimstone]

I'd say most parents have forgotten a child at least once! It happens. When my cousin and I were both babies, my mum and aunt went to the bank with us in our prams. They were nearly home before they realised they'd left my cousin in the bank and had to run back and get her!

Then there was the time they took all 5 of us kids to Hamley's toy store managed to lose 3 of us and not realise for goodness knows how long, but we were found on a different floor of the store!

It happens. It probably shouldn't, but it does.