Shannon Matthews..

[jackie j]

I agree I thought it was suspicious from the start. As a mother of five kids I would move heaven and hell to protect my family. Having married twice, only my youngest is my 2nd husbands, the others are from my first marriage which lasted 18 years, I was very careful who I introduced my boys to, it seems too many family's are made up of different fathers, OK if only one or two. Young kids seem to think that getting pregnant is the ideal situation without thinking it through, the sleepless nights and everything else that comes with parenthood. I have been a lone parent, its hard, I was brought up by a single mum with 2 older sisters not because they split up but my dad died when i was 6 yrs old, mum married again at the age of 59 when i was 17 and he was a b#####d to us
but never once hit us. we were glad when he died before my mum as it gave her back to us.
This will go on for a while yet. Are her other kids in care? havent heard.

[beefy]

While a police investigation is ongoing I think it probably for the best if no further comment is made about this matter.
Can the moderators give us their view/views on this please.

[Alison]

Regardless of the police investigation, it would most certainly be for the best if no further comment is made on this as we are only speculating from the scant information which has come to light on what is quite clearly a very distressing series of events, regardless of the actual nature of the truth which will eventually come out. This is not a story for any of us to take the higher moral ground on.

[allotmentlady]

What ever has gone at least Shannon is getting the care and attention she needs. Regardless of what may or may not have happened and we cannot trust the media, they, after all are only interested in something to sell papers, concern should only be about Shannon, I feel a thread like this is inappropriate on the grapevine and maybe left to another forum of somesort. We do of course have young members of the forum.

Can the moderators erase or lock this thread?