From parents to a detective masterpiece

My parents and my two sisters are the best things that have happened to me so far. I love them dearly and without reservation. I know I am very forturnate. To me, my mother represents all the virtues you could name. She has passed away but there is no day gone without missing her and thinking of her.

I believe there are many good mothers and fathers who are trying their best and doing all the right things to bring up their children.

Yet, the 'parents' stamp does not mean 'Saints'. Some parents abuse their children. Some parents spoil their children to the extreme. Some never really care about them. Some use them as money-making tools. Some use them as relationship weapons. Some treat them as possessions because these parents have nothing else and have not achieved anything in life. Some see them as a way to exercise their 'rights' as a woman or a human. Some need them for social convenience, such as, social benefits, free housing and what not. Some have children without reason. Oh, they were accidents. So, let's make it clear that some parents are just rubbish. It just so happens in this world that whoever you are, if you can conceive, you can have a child.

Parents make mistakes, even the best and highly educated and intelligent ones. At the end of the day, they are just humans. Please remember, they are just HUMANS.

Like any normal human beings interacting with each other, they could get frustrated, angry with, and irritated by their own children. Children throw hysteric tandrums. They can't be reasoned with and they constantly seek attention. They also know exactly how to irritate their parents, take advantage of their love, play their natural psychological games to get what they want from their parents, and at last wrap them in their tiny little finger mercilessly.

In response, some parents tell their children off when necessary, discipline them, set limits and boundaries, lock them up in their bedroom, confine them to the naughty corner, send them to counselling sessions, put in place an award and punishment system, and many more. However, sometimes, that could be overdone and which may lead to some sort of damage. Some damage is slight and some could be irreversible.

I will not be surprised if the Madeleine McCann case would turn out to be one of those. Why should we rule that out and label the McCanns 'Saints'? What make them 'Saints'? Why should we be so illogical and irrational in assuming them they don't make mistakes in bringing up or treating their children? Why shouldn't we be suspicious until the case is solved? Why should we persecute the Portugese Police Force and brand them useless, inept and incompetent?

There are several possiblities.

1. The child was taken away and is now with someone else.
2. The child was kidnapped and the criminals want a ransom. (If so, it would become too difficult for the kidnappers now because the whole world knows it)
3. The child was killed by the kidnappers because the situation became out of hand.
4. The child was killed by some weirdo.
5. The child was killed because she was unlucky.
6. The child was killed because she was hated by somebody.
7. The child died of accident, negligence.
8. The child has just disappeared.

Okay, honestly it could be one of the above. Well, to help the Portugese Police solve the mystery and deal with the child's high profile and intelligent parents, we need Agatha Christie's exceptional 'detectives'. Miss Marple would tell you that people could be evil. M. Poirot would ask you to put things in order and use your grey cells.

The Madeleine case is an interesting one and should interest the best minds to find out the truth.