Home Alone

Novinite Insider » EDITORIAL | February 6, 2007, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Home Alone Photo by Kameliya Atanasova (Sofia Photo Agency)

By Petya Sabinova

Here in Bulgaria we are used to seeing cases of reckless abandonment. Our politicians recklessly abandon national interests to follow their own agenda, children give up on school because they get married or simply lose interest in studying and parents leave their little ones alone at home without even giving it a second thought.

All those examples are scary but the last one is the most horrifying, because it has already cost the life of three children this year alone. In 2006 the death toll was 9, all young children, who were left home alone by parents, who simply didn't give a damn. Poverty, lack of education and the tough times we live in are no excuse for a mother who leaves two toddlers alone and locks the door. If there is a will there is a way, people say. This mother could have asked a neighbor for help, for example. But she didn't and now she will have this day haunt her for the rest of her life. A life she won't be sharing with her son and daughter.

We have all seen the movie Home Alone, and although it may have been funny, leaving toddlers to burn alive or suffocate is no laughing matter. It's about time Bulgarian parents realized that.

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