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Would you Microchip your child?

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clumsymum · 15/05/2007 14:09

this article in the Times today points out that it is technically possible.

But is this really where we want to go?

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80sMum · 28/05/2007 23:37

No!

Speccy · 28/05/2007 23:38

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mylittleimps · 28/05/2007 23:43

had a similar thing Speccy for a minute or two at an adventure playground when ds1 was out of sight (but he was just up the slide waiting his turn!) plus had a horrible experience in a supermarket but still the answer would be no, i wouldn't as they are human beings and the idea just doesn't sit right for me.

Speccy · 28/05/2007 23:45

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Twinklemegan · 28/05/2007 23:48

I've read the article and realised it's not about implanting a chip in the kid's neck. Would any of you still answer yes if it was?

mylittleimps · 28/05/2007 23:58

speccy, might be completely wromng but i think some indoor play centres do do something similar, sure i read it somewhere not witnessed it), but it's a bit like treating them as tagged criminals to me so no probably not!

i'd rather have every paedo tagged for life, and even better that started beeping if they came within a certain distance of a child (how that would work without tagging the children i don't know (and i don't want that part of it), but the idea for the paedo makes me )

ZipadiSuzy · 29/05/2007 00:00

We love our pets enough to do it so why not for our children.

Twinklemegan · 29/05/2007 00:01

So you would actually have a chip implanted in your child's neck?

misdee · 29/05/2007 00:03

yes.

on friday dd3 wandered off. she got past 5 adults and 5 children.

she was found quite a distance away at a caravan site, at the same time we realised she had gone.

if someone hadnt seen her and shouted she was there, then i doubt we would've found her for a while.

AngharadGoldenhand · 29/05/2007 00:05

No.

Twinklemegan · 29/05/2007 00:05

But isn't the comparison to pets spurious though. The only thing that would help if kids go missing is a tracking device, or something that beeps when it goes out of range. But for pets, it's just so the owner can be identified when an animal is found somewhere. Completely different.

hunkermunker · 29/05/2007 00:05

I just read this thread title as "Would you mooncup your child?"

misdee · 29/05/2007 00:06

maybe a tracking de3vice would be better.

or a great big horn sounding off if they go out of arms reach lol.

Speccy · 29/05/2007 00:11

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 29/05/2007 16:19

YOu can get wristbands that have a device on them that if the child goes further than a few metres away from the parent an alarm goes off. Parent wears one band and the child the other.

Lovecat · 29/05/2007 20:34

No no no no no!

(although pmsl at the mooncup idea )

For those of you making the pets/children comparison, I give you this story:

Friend of mine buys horse. Arab stallion, beautiful thing, v. expensive to insure. Insurers say cost of insurance will plummet if horsey is microchipped.

Geegee duly gets microchipped (and a natty little freezemark on his shoulder to prove he's been chipped). Four years later, friend decides to sell. As part of the 'yes I really do own this horse and am entitled to sell him' process, the vet comes along with his scanner and runs it over the horse's neck to confirm the microchipped horse is who he says he is (iyswim).

No microchip. Vet runs scanner over entire horse, several times as 'this is impossible', still no microchip. It's either become lodged somewhere between a couple of internal organs that are blocking the signal, or the horse has somehow passed it out of him. Either way, it's moved and, according to the vet, probably entered the bloodstream.

Would you still want to do this to your child? Even if the possibility was on a par with your child getting abducted (ie minimal)?

Just a thought....

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