The neglect thing is just beyond words. Are parents supposed to always travel in pairs, in case of incapacitating illness?
And frankly, if someone from New York came to Bideford and became ill, then I would bet my SOCKS that their temporarily unsupervised children would be offered every possible form of help by pretty much anyone, official, unofficial, and most particularly by people running the hotel they were staying in.
Seems to me, they went on holiday from their native culture of basically nice, if somewhat parochial and insular, people to a culture of what appear to be complete jobworth bastards.
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Date: 2008-01-24 09:33 pm (UTC)And frankly, if someone from New York came to Bideford and became ill, then I would bet my SOCKS that their temporarily unsupervised children would be offered every possible form of help by pretty much anyone, official, unofficial, and most particularly by people running the hotel they were staying in.
Seems to me, they went on holiday from their native culture of basically nice, if somewhat parochial and insular, people to a culture of what appear to be complete jobworth bastards.