MB the language you use and statements you make ceratinly give the impression that you view these people as irresponsible parents.
You continue to equate what they did and the sitaution at VP in this thread with abandoning children at home and going out, which it is not. You have not acknowledged that we all take calculated risks with our children and the Mccanns and others obviously viewed this to be a miniscule risk which indeed it is as this has never happened before.
There are countless other tiny risks loving parents have taken with tragic consequnces. I don't see why you feel the need to judge unless you feel they were truly negligent. and your language suggests you do, and to me at least your language also states that as you love your children so much you would never do this, and it is therefore logical to infer from this that you beleive they loved their daughter less and therefoer took a greater risk.
Deeply unpleasant in my view.
I mentioned Justine just to show that many peopl who we presume to be decent parents would do this and view it as minimal risk, without the need for a referral to SS as you suggest.
Some examples of your unpleasnt, emotive, suggestive, sanctimoniuos language:
'If a couple left three under three children in their home AT HOME - unattended to go up the road to the pub for a couple of hours, I suspect social services would be involved.'- It was not the equivalent to going up the raod to the pub, and you bringing up SS defeinetly suugests you are questioning their abilty as parents.
'leaving their most treasured possessions unguarded'-if this is not emotive and judgmental I can't imagine what would be.
'I just cant comprehend the mentality of it'-suggesting they have dome something extreme, and totally beyond comprehension.
'they decided to put child-free socialising over the security of those precious kids' - do you really believe that thast meal was more imporatnt to them than their children?? Do you? This is what this says.
'you guard your passport, your money whatever in a safe so I dont understand how anyone could contemplate leaving their kids'-suggesting I'm afraid that their children were less precious to them than their passport/money. Do you really beleive that? What an extreme and damning statement to make.
I accept you would not do this, that's a decsion you take. Just as I would not hire a villa with a pool (have a fear about the children around water) but would not then suggest that a parents who did this and whose child tragically drowned did not view thier child as precious enough or that they'd 'rue the day they they had that pool.' Of course they would, but saying it makes it into a judgement particyalry when so close to the event. And many children do drown in pools on holiday, yet poeple still do it. This is just an exapmle to higlight that your differnt deciosn should not be used to judged these poeple.
I do not expect you to temper your views for me. I am just explaining why I find them and the way they are expressed deeply distasteful, and disturbibg in the level of judgemnt and accusation against other parents and their love of their children.
I can't imagine why you feel the need to do that.