Maury or Amber Alerts

• rydawg5

  Which of these two produce more "fathers" of suspected males?
  
  Maury is 50/50
  Amber alerts seem to be 100/0
  
  Not trying to mock the cell phone alerts I get but it makes it less of an emergency when a dad has his child a little longer than a court agreement.
  
  Maybe there can be a different alert system for parenting issues?
  
  
  
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• salto

  

  Generally bat crazy moms are married to effed up in the head dads. When they have kids it leads to alerts being sounded.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Rydawg, why are you posting these dumb questions when "only 12 people will see them"
• rydawg5

  I dunno deydurkie - shouldn't you just tell me to GTFO instead of asking me questions?
  
  
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• bigkahuna

  Can they really call an Amber Alert if the parent is 20-30 minutes late with the kids?
• Uz2Bon36

  

  Were you drunk when you made this thread?
  
  Your comment "An alert system for parenting issues" sounds like something Obama would say.
• rydawg5

  Uz2Bon36;1708190 wrote:Were you drunk when you made this thread?
  
  Your comment "An alert system for parenting issues" sounds like something Obama would say.

  I'm saying there should be a distinction of a kidnapping from a stranger and "kidnapping" from a parent.
• bigkahuna

  No, there shouldn't.
  
  If you're a parent and decide to take off with your kid to God knows where, you've kidnapped your kid. If you did it because you can't handle only seeing them everyother weekend, then I guess you should go to court for custody. Kidnapping a kid is kidnapping a kid no matter how you shake it.
• rydawg5

  bigkahuna;1708204 wrote:No, there shouldn't.
  
  If you're a parent and decide to take off with your kid to God knows where, you've kidnapped your kid. If you did it because you can't handle only seeing them everyother weekend, then I guess you should go to court for custody. Kidnapping a kid is kidnapping a kid no matter how you shake it.

  
  Gotcha. I get your logic I just think there is a huge difference.
• Uz2Bon36

  

  rydawg5;1708206 wrote:Gotcha. I get your logic I just think there is a huge difference.

  So instead of generalizing you want the alert to inform us specifics, like if it's a f*cked up dad or just an assistant PSU football coach.
• rydawg5

  I wouldn't agree with you that The Parent in question is normally "f*d" up a majority of the time or how the PSU thing is even part of the equation.
  
  I'll concede that after the other parent reports to the police that if the parent with the child is described as a danger to the child, then the amber alert would be warranted.
• rydawg5

  Are you a parent?
• Con_Alma

  The general public doesn't need two different levels of notification. They only need to know a child isn't where it's permitted or supposed to be and if you the general public are willing to help and have information you should consider offering it up.
  
  I'm a parent.
• rydawg5

  Con_Alma;1708221 wrote:The general public doesn't need two different levels of notification. They only need to know a child isn't where it's permitted or supposed to be and if you the general public are willing to help and have information you should consider offering it up.
  
  I'm a parent.

  
  I can tell you that when I realized every time my phone went off, it was just a parent, I turned off the notifications. I would have kept it on had it been because the child was missing with a stranger.
• Con_Alma

  ...which is why I suggested there's no additional information needed to be provided identifying if it's a parent or not.
  
  Identify the adult and child for recognition purposes is enough. We don't need to know if it's a parent or not. There are parents who have killed their children. They are no less dangerous than a stranger.
  
  Give the public the minimum information needed....other than that, we need not know.