It's a fair enough gripe on the mother's part but I'm not sure discussing it here will be very productive. The world is full of abandoned children.

Wonder what the back story is.

Did he run out on his pregnant girlfriend or did he "forget" to use a condom after paying the bar fine ~9 years ago?
#1 is a pretty shitty thing to do while #2 would be the kind of surprise that causes heart attacks.

Here is to a happy ending!

Interesting related story ... i was just over in Tenerife for 5 weeks, and i saw over there, posters concerning missing people, tourists, locals, Spaniards, etc and also the same on FB, and even at the local bank ATM screens. i suspect whats going on over there is they have all these cliffs near the beach, mountains, trails, rocks, etc. There are pathways and hiking trails all over the place, and they dont have guard rails like we do in the USA and warning signs, for example "dangerous cliffs ahead etc" people can just walk right up to the edge. So im assume some of the deaths are related to people not having a good sense of the danger associated with the droppoffs, tripping etc. Some of them arent that far maybe like 10 or 20 feet. I suspect a secondary cause is probably drowning alone at the beach. Stories confirm my suspicions. The rest of the missing are probably in the sea somewhere.

Stravaiger wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:14 pm

Matty9999 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 4:24 pm So im assume some of the deaths are related to people not having a good sense of the danger associated with the droppoffs, tripping etc. Some of them arent that far maybe like 10 or 20 feet. I suspect a secondary cause is probably drowning alone at the beach. Stories confirm my suspicions. The rest of the missing are probably in the sea somewhere.

Another possibility is that not everyone who goes missing has met with a grisly fate. It used to be called 'doing a Reggie'.

Absolutely. Many people "disappear" because they choose to.