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YouLoveberries · 2025-08-01T13:59:48+00:00

Has anyone decided not to take their children on holiday as a single parent? Even more so with the recent tragedy in the news about the two young children on holiday it’s just kind of confirmed it even more to me that it’s a bad idea and I don’t feel id be able to safely watch them on my own. (I know they weren’t single parents but still) how do you get over not going on holiday again? It’s already been 15 Years since I last went abroad and the uk is definitely not the same (sorry)

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YouLoveberries · 10/08/2025 15:19

No one cares what you believe bore off zzzz
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Roothewheel · 10/08/2025 15:22

YouLoveberries · 10/08/2025 15:19

No one cares what you believe bore off zzzz
😴

May I ask how you know?

You know you don’t care, but me asking for these foreign “dangers” is something others have asked so I’m not alone.

Justletmemoveon · 10/08/2025 15:22

Op when I first split up with my kids’ dad I was really really nervous about taking them abroad on my own, so I get where you’re coming from (and my kids haven’t got SEN). However we really wanted to go, so I built up gradually and pushed myself out of my comfort zone little by little, and now a few years later I would take them anywhere really.

If you don’t really want to go abroad then that’s fine too, but I would disagree that other countries are necessarily more dangerous. I’d say that most places I’ve been on holiday have been far safer than where I live in the UK. All the best with whatever you decide.

Pigletsstripeyjumper · 10/08/2025 20:18

Roothewheel · 10/08/2025 15:22

May I ask how you know?

You know you don’t care, but me asking for these foreign “dangers” is something others have asked so I’m not alone.

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FFS, stop trying to goad the OP into saying something you want to interpret as xenophobic.
Sometimes going abroad on holiday is harder for parents not because the place they are interested in holidaying in is particularly more dangerous than the UK but because they are less well equipped to deal with the dangers or just the difficulties which do exist. It can be harder because there is a language barrier, culture differences, a lack of familiarity with systems and services in that country and no access to their normal support network at home. So ordinary dangers (that also exist in the UK) like your kid getting lost in a crowd are harder to manage and mitigate.
And you do realise that some places in the world really are more dangerous to visit than others, which is why the government publishes advice about relative risk of travel by country? https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

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https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

Roothewheel · 11/08/2025 10:00

Pigletsstripeyjumper · 10/08/2025 20:18

FFS, stop trying to goad the OP into saying something you want to interpret as xenophobic.
Sometimes going abroad on holiday is harder for parents not because the place they are interested in holidaying in is particularly more dangerous than the UK but because they are less well equipped to deal with the dangers or just the difficulties which do exist. It can be harder because there is a language barrier, culture differences, a lack of familiarity with systems and services in that country and no access to their normal support network at home. So ordinary dangers (that also exist in the UK) like your kid getting lost in a crowd are harder to manage and mitigate.
And you do realise that some places in the world really are more dangerous to visit than others, which is why the government publishes advice about relative risk of travel by country? https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

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Oh fgs

the op starts a thread about the dangers abroad

and then refuses to list any danger aside from water