Topic : 11/17 The Search for Natalee and Amy

DOESN'T ANYONE ELSE WONDER WHY THE MILITARY, FBI, OR SOME OTHER POWERFUL UNIT GO IN TO INVADE THAT COMPLEX WITH THE 20 FT WALL ETC., TO RESCUE THOSE GIRLS IN THERE???   

IF THAT TY GUY CAN ACCOMPLISH ALL OF WHAT HE'S ACCOMPLISHED, THEN WHAT IN THE HALO IS GOING ON WITH THE AUTHORITIES??? 

IF IT WERE ALL MEN HELD PRISONERS IN THERE, DO YOU THINK IT WOULD TAKE LONG TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT??? 

SIGNED, 

FRUSTRATED. 

tHE FIRST thing I said when the girl was reported missing was that she has been sold into sex slavery. 

It is far more common then the average person knows. It is the third biggest business in the world after drugs and guns.  Usually it is poor eastern european girls who are being tricked into sex slavery. They are promised work somewhere else and they believe it.   

I hope it is not the case with Natalee.  

Yesterday when I wathced the show I started crying, it is so horrific that these things happens all over the world. We have trafficked woman all over the states, american girls are being trafficked all over the world. When are we as a society going to wake up and do something about this??? 

This is a huge problem everywhere.   

Thank you DrPhil for letting people know about this and I truly hope you will find the girl. 

Folks----------------------- 

I, like everyone, hopes that these girls and all of the kids who have been taken and forced into slavery for any reason, sexual or servatude, etc. come home soon. Worse for wear, surely, but alive and home. 

When we first heard about Natalee I said to my huband that, since nothing of her had been found, 

she could have been kidnapped and held against her will, maybe even in Venzuela.  

But we also wondered WHY, WHY, WHY are parents of kids, under 21, who are mainly 17/18 yrs. old because they have just graduated from HIGH SCHOOL letting them go off to a foreign country where they are allowed to DRINK ALL OF THE ALCOHOL THEY WANT and gamble all they want and do anything else that they want to do??? ? Even most kids in college are NOT old enough to drink in this country and none are allowed to legally gamble. So why are we sending our kids to countries that let them do all of these things. Why are we sending them to do things that they can't legally do here for another 3/4 years???? Adult things!! Why are we rushing them???? Can't ANY PARENTS have the GUTS to say NOWAY to their kids who want to go on these trips???? If the kids want to go to the beach and have that kind of atmosphere, GOOD GREIF there are thousands of shoreline here at home. Yes, things can happen here like anywhere else but to sent them to places where the main event is PARTY---PARTY---PARTY and then you let them drink alcohol is BEGGING for trouble. At least our laws are directed at protecting kids from themselves. 

Why are we doing this?????????????? It needs to stop and if boycotting Aruba will help stop it so 

be it. You know if they were concerned about underage drinking they could raise the legal age for alcohol. But that would hit them in the pocketbook so naturally they won't do that. It's up to PARENTS to say NO to their kids for a change. The legal age there for alcohol is 18. So how are the kids drinking in the clubs who are only 17???? Think they CARE?? Apparently not. 

If everyone would NOT let their kids go to Aruba until they were 21 then Aruba would get the message. 

I, also, am wondering if Natalee's family has thought about bring in a phychic. Some of them do amazing work. I hope they give this some serious thought.  

And lets all discourage anyone from making it too easy to take our kids. 

As a father of an almost 18 year old, my wife continue to remind me that I can't control her life forever. I love Heather with all my heart and soul, and yes I am overprotective. However, Heather and I have an open communication, that if given the opportunity to go on a trip such as Natalie went on, she would be asking me to go with her, first and foremost. 

Some 18 year olds, would see it as their first sense of freedom. And in many state at 18, parents already have no legal right to tell them what to do, or not to do.  However, it is up to parents to build that type of open relationship with their children so that you can guide their every way, and even choose to accompany them with very little objection from their part.  I am not even clear what the legal age is here in IL, when a kid could do whatever without a parent's consent, but see that is not important to us, as the relationship we have is stronger than any law. 

This relationship building should start when they first go to school. I personally know all her friends, have gone on almost every single field trip, and I am also a member of the Citizen's Advisory Council in her school district, as well as a member on her school improvement team. This gives me an opportunity to keep on top of her education as well as her social life.  

The boycott on Aruba needs to be extended fast, and not just for kids, cancel all vacations whether it is an anniversary trip with your spouse without kids, or a family vacation. Have to hit Aruba and all the island's their government controls where it hurts.  In the pocketbook!