Posted on 06/08/2010 2:29:16 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
The center is meant to help the families of missing persons by providing support to families of the missing and by reducing the challenges they face, challenges that Beth Holloway says she dealt with when her own daughter disappeared.
She also hopes it will prevent more missing persons cases by providing travel safety tips and advice for college and high school students.
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You mean like.....
No. Too easy. Won't go there.
Don’t go to 2nd world islands.
“She also hopes it will prevent more missing persons cases by providing travel safety tips and advice for college and high school students.”
I did not realize that “Don’t get wasted drunk and run off with strange men” needed it’s own DC based resource center.
“I did not realize that “Don’t get wasted drunk and run off with strange men” needed it’s own DC based resource center.”
Kids generally and a great many young girls are just that stupid these days.
It might just be me, but maybe they can open the “resource center” right next to the ‘Ron Goldman:How to be on Perpetual TV’ agency!!
I won’t go all the way there, either. But, I would say a key rule is not to go off with strange men somewhere, to always stay with the group you are traveling with, etc. I’m very sad this woman lost her daughter. It’s very sad that from what we know, some common sense behavior would have kept her out of danger.
How about ensuring your daughter is safe and not let her trapes off to an Island after high school graduation. What a dippy mother. I quite frankly am so depressed to have her back in the news. She is a disgrace and I cannot believe that she is not somehow responsible for her death in some way. I guess bad parenting or judgement is not reason to go to jail.
It is even worse because he got the money to travel to Peru by extortion of Beth Holloway.
I am sorry but I don’t see how this site is going to help folks who are down in the Islands. I can’t imagine teens who are ready for sex and booze are going to stop by DC and find out safety information. Kids don’t think anything will happen to them.
Not nice at all to call Natalee's mother a disgrace...
Yes, natalie made some dumb decisions, and she paid the ultimate price. However, it is Van der Sloat’s fault that she is dead. I wonder if he killed her with his bare hands as well.
I think natalie’s mom and dad also made a dumb decisions letting her go there at her age. They also paid the ultimate price in losing a child.
That being said, I hope that they can help find missing people. It’s hell for anyone in such a situation. Best of luck to them in this endeavor.
Does anyone know if Beth Holloway is still married to Natalee’s father? When ever I hear about the family it is usually the mom we hear from. I was wondering if their marriage had fallen apart under all the stress or maybe they were divorced before. Maybe the dad just wants to avoid the public eye. I was just wondering because they seem like a nice family
Thank you for biting my tongue for me!
Oh come on...would you allow your 17 year old daughter go off to some island? Really? She is a disgrace as a Mother...not as a person.
Beth Holloway Twitty and husband divorced. John Ramsey and Beth have been romantically involved since January 2007.
It was a class trip.
Personally, I find your and some other comments on this thread a disgrace...
Unless you put your child under lock and key, it could happen to ANYONE.
Yes. It was a chaperoned class trip-—a tradition for that high school. The kids had some freedoms, but they were not simply there on their own.
I agree.
The article mentioned that they are no longer involved.
Thanks.
Natalee's stepfather was Jug Twitty.
After Beth & Dave Holloway divorced, Jug Twitty married Beth; about a year after Natalee disappeared he divorced Beth and for a short while she was seeing John Ramsey, but not anymore.
Not just these days.... what happened to Natalie is sad, but there is a whole lot of young, naive, girls who do the same thing and fortunately they return home alive....
and in days past too. Part of a parent's job is to obsessively drill basic paranoid survival tactics into their kids. This is especially true with daughters. Even when parents do everything right, kids can and do act stupidly.
Let’s not forget “the chaperones”.
Many of these ill-conceived “safe” vacations are sold to gullible parents because they are “chaperoned”
The kids look at mom & dad with glee - “everyone is going!” “Mrs. B is the chaperone!” “There will be 5 adults going along as chaperones! Everything is TOTALLY cool and safe and stuff...”
And then, of course, as it turns out - the “chaperones” are likely in worse shape than the kids.
Heck - they’re nowhere to be seen!
I totally agree with you, anyone who believes this is Beth's fault simply has NO idea about the social lives of America's young college students; and going on a chaperoned class trip to Aruba along with the rest of your high school class is nothing to condemn the parents about.
The binge drinking and ready availability of drugs on campuses across the nation is what is a DISGRACE.
You nailed it. I think the mom is operating out of guilt.
I would not have allowed my daughter to go on this trip. However, it was a chaperoned high school trip. I can see how, if this kid had always been responsible, and if there was was heavy lobbying from, for example, the spouse and or other parent, this was allowed to happen.
I think your comments are a disgrace and judgemental. Parents are responsible for their children, period. End of discussion. I would never let my child leave this country without me. There is no law that says you have to turn your kid over to strangers.
She dissapeared 5 days after graduating from high school, so she was hardly one of "America's young college students".
Joran Van der Sloot was only 17 years-old when Natalie and her other school friends met him.
She was no match for his sociopathic tendencies and Natalie could have been one of our daughters....raised in a broken home or a stable one....with the excitement of being on an exotic trip and daring to drink with her peers.
I thank God every day that I could not afford such indulgences for my children - and - on reflection so are they.
“Oh, sorry, I did not realize it was Natalie’s fault that she was drugged...”
How do you know alcohol and drugs were forced upon her?
I’ll go there....DON’T let your YOUNG CHILDREN go to a FOREIGN COUNTRY on SPRING BREAK!!
She was due to move to the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa campus a couple months later in August for sorority rush.
Joran could be linked to TWO MORE MISSING WOMEN in Columbia that he met at a casino per Fox News & CNN ‘Issues with Jane Valez Mitchell!
And truly, who knows how many other murders and/or missing persons coincide with his travels all over the globe????
Scary!!
I am not sure that he has remarried.
That is what this site is about...discussing different issues and stories. I doubt that this site was designed for all of us to agree on everything.
That is what this site is about...discussing different issues and stories. I doubt that this site was designed for all of us to agree on everything.
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