I feel so sorry for Shannon Matthews
 

What sort of life must she have had. 7 kids, 5 fathers. Stepdad likes looking at pics of kiddies. Uncle kidnaps her. Step aunt and step gran seem to cover it up. And Shannon prefers to stay with foster parents and her new cat than go home with her mum.

This little girl is the same age as my daughter.

What a sad state of affairs.

:(

Re: I feel so sorry for Shannon Matthews
 

Typical of low lifes in this country.

Shannon should count her lucky stars she has broken free at such a young age and is now likely to have a better life because of it.

Unfortunately all the other kids will continue to be brought up with no morals or understanding of decent honest life, and will then end up just like their parents having 10 kids each, who will all then in turn each have another ten kids slowly making the honest middle/working class extinct because they cant afford to have their own as they are paying for other peoples.

Its real life shameless.

Re: I feel so sorry for Shannon Matthews
 

Its all very sad for kids like Shannon Matthews, but there are more and more examples like this and it show why Britain is going to the dogs. What happened to family values, decency, honesty??

Re: I feel so sorry for Shannon Matthews
 

Don't even start me on this. Some kids are not given a chance in life. I bet they thought they will cash up on all of this ... watching all the hype around Madelaine MC ... they though they will do the same!

Re: I feel so sorry for Shannon Matthews
 

+1

To generalise (and I'm not saying that all single parents are bad etc, so don't flame me) but the overall trend and breakdown of the family unit has a lot to answer for regarding todays society.

Poor Shannon. Lets hope she is looked after by the system, and gets a little help out of society's gutter.

Re: I feel so sorry for Shannon Matthews
 

Whislt I thoroughly agree with what's been written thus far, I also have a feeling that there is a LOT more to come from this story.

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Totally agree.

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yup....... shannons mother had somthing to do with it all. i heard that they had asked the McCans for money to help find shannon

how can you do this to your own child?

Re: I feel so sorry for Shannon Matthews
 

The statistics on kids who go into care are truely terrible. The numbers who end up homeless, pregnant or in prison by the age of 19 make sobering reading (no reference to hand though).

I've heard opinions that this is in large part down to Labour closing down orphanages.

Re: I feel so sorry for Shannon Matthews
 

It really is hard to know what to do for a kid like Shannon.

It doesnt seem like her mother can be trusted (assumption on my part as i dont have all the facts). Her step famaily seem to have pedophilic tendencies.

If the state removes her for her own good, as it seems it should, she may end up with a loving home, or she may end up in a childrens home, worst case like the place in Jersey.

I only hope it works out well for her!

What then should happen to the Adults concerned, they end up in the criminal "justice" system and cost us a fortune to keep locked away. - Why should we pay?
If they are not locked away then other kids are put at risk - possibly ours, so lock they up - But again why should we pay?

I have no answers, in fact I cant even formulate all of the questions in a coherent manner yet.

I can see why transportation to the colonies seemed like such a good idea way back when!

Confused!