Typical of you, to take a simple question, read into it, and turn it into rant designed to attack the US. If you would read without your well known vendetta coloring your perception, you would note I simply asked a question relating to her gratuitous assertion regarding child abuse levels in the States.

As to your own gratuitous assertion "Outside of the US, Big Mick, nowhere", a very quick check shows Canada has one. I am quite sure that I could spend some time and check in Europe and find some as well.

To all of you that continue to try and fault the parents, I would point out that the evidence seems to point to an illegal entry to the home through a window, that the child was found in her own basement, and the parents were home. I surely would never let my child participate in something which seems to equate self worth with made up looks, but to somehow try and equate participation in these events with putting your child at risk for murder seems to be a stretch. And those that use these arguments are demagogues of the first order.

Mick