Posted on 06/14/2010 6:58:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yup.
Good for your granddaughter! One of my church friends has a daughter who got her CNA license the summer after her junior year of high school, and already has a scholarship/internship lined up for nursing school.
There is a great deal of ground between sitting around doing nothing, and doing something foolishly dangerous that, even if completed safely, would not really add any value to the world.
I disagree about CPS. We have too much government involvement in our lives now.
In 1850 the life expectancy was 40. I looked it up. Our ancestors didn't have time to be kids at 16. Life expectancy now is 77.7 years. Comparing her with 16 year olds from our history is misleading.
Thats impossible. According to the people who defend the Sunderland fiasco all young people do now is have babies and play video games. (s)
Hopefully public scorn and ridicule.
Homeschooling doesn’t make them kooks. Sending their daughter around the world in rough seas in a small boat does make them kooks. I think all kids should be homeschooled.
Scorn?
Ridicule?
This teen needs a neurological workup and probably a great deal of therapy.
To set a record that a 15 year old will break? And then a 14 year old? How young shall we allow them to be to sail alone simply so they can say "I DID IT!"?
>> Homeschooling doesn’t make them kooks. Sending their daughter around the world in rough seas in a small boat does make them kooks.
+1
I would add: “sending their daughter... for PROFIT”.
Pretty low-life if you ask me.
Christopher Columbus was a grown man. He sailed with 3 ships much larger than Abbys little boat. He had a full crew and he was on a mission that actually was going to do some good. No comparison whatsoever.
Not really a relevant comparison. Most of that increase is at birth and in the first five years of life; LOTS more infant mortality back then.
Get past five years old, and life expectancies between the current period and a century back even out a lot. That IS a statistic.
So the comparison between her and sixteen year olds a century back is less misleading that you might think.
And he didn’t do it in winter. Still a risky trip.
Ah but it will affect sponsors. Their public image is everything. And the American Sailing Association did NOT endorse this trip. There will be problems.
This teen needs a neurological workup
I'm sure she'll be thoroughly examined when she reaches port.
Homeschoolers I've known have always been deeply concerned about extracurricular and appropriate social activities for their kids, so that they aren't isolated from the world -- and neighborhood.
I’m all for making dreams come true and individual initiative, but this girl is very, very lucky to be alive. Her father and mother need to behave more like responsible adults.
Her father says he’s broke, and news articles mentioned that they have 7 kids with another on the way. Time to thank God for the wife and kids and take on another job to pay the bills. It is NOT time to send your 16 yr. old daughter around the world in a small sailboat so you can stay home making babies and watching the cash roll in from endorsements and commercial ventures.
“Abby should sue all of her sponsors for child endangerment”
Sue her own sponsors, how conservative. And i hate to rain on the parade, but i love how everyone is so concerned about the safety of searchers, and professional fishermen in the antarctic oceans. These men are of course well-known for avoiding all risk. In truth, those rescuers were at their happiest,,,and not in need of protection from self righeous nervous nellies.
Brave girl, good family, daring greatly, successful business,, It’s an American fairy tale.
Beak out the sextant (or hand held GPS) and sail by jury rig or motor to Isl st Paul 170nmNW (3-8 days).
Yeah. I read 30 to 40%. I can't imagine the heartbreak.
So the comparison between her and sixteen year olds a century back is less misleading that you might think.
Not really but if you wanna go with that, fine. You should read mortality sheets. Plenty of teens died of mysterious ailments. Women died in childbirth. There were no guarantees and medicine was not what it is now. It isn't the infant mortality rate that made life expectancy 40 yrs old.
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