This seems to bring out strong opinions on both sides. I think it clouds the issue when it's children. Looking at these actions in another way might help. Is it OK to drug your partner so you can nip out and meet your lover, for example? Is it OK to drug an elderly relative you care for so you can have a night out? No matter what the age or mental capacity of the person, is it ever ethical to medicate them for your own ends?
MUMBELIEVABLE Mum sparks furious debate after saying she drugs her kids and leaves them alone in hotel room
Some shocked mums asked if the 'self-centred parents' had 'learned nothing from Madeleine McCann'By Josie Griffiths
24th September 2017, 12:02 pm Updated: 24th September 2017, 12:28 pm
A SHOCKED mum has asked for advice after an Instagram user boasted about “drugging her children and leaving them alone in a hotel room” – but is all as it seems?
Mumsnet user amazinggracie was horrified when a woman she follows, who is on holiday in Geneva with her husband and two kids, shared the post last night.
There’s been shock on Mumsnet after a woman boasted about ‘drugging’ her kids before leaving them alone to go to the hotel bar with her husband
In her “horrendous” Instagram story, the unnamed mum-of-two is said to have “given the kids Piriton to get them to sleep.”
Piriton is an allergy relief drug which can cause drowsiness in both children and adults.
According to the thread, the woman then went and “joined her husband in the bar, leaving her phone in the room connected to Skype to her husband’s phone so they could see them while they were in the bar.”
“I just feel all kinds of uncomfortable,” amazinggracie added. “Surely people don’t do this??
“I should add that she’d posted support from her other followers who were hailing it a great idea”.
Many of her fellow mums were equally shocked.
The Instagram user claims to have given her kids Piriton to make them drowsy – but some suspect it’s just a ‘bad taste joke’
Among them was TheStoic, who wrote: “So she posted that she drugged her children and left them alone in a hotel room? Can you post a screenshot?”
While HiJenny35 wrote: “What drug your children so you can go on the p***, no that’s not ok”.
And YellowFlower201 added: “Crazy!!! Leaving them is bad enough but drugging them is just madness.”
One mum said said: “I would literally take a screenshot and inform social services when they get back.
“How can you drug your kids?! And then leave them alone in a hotel room?!
“Did bloody idiotic self-centred parents learn nothing from Madeleine McCann?”
While another concerned parent said of the decision: “What a risk to take.”
But other mums were less worried about the post.
One wrote: “It’s definitely not a crime to give kids Piriton for sleep as my GP prescribed it for DD (dear daughter) at one stage.
“I also doubt it’s a crime to leave them in a hotel room if you’re watching them via a link the entire time.”
Another mum agreed, adding: “FFS (for f***s sake) get a grip people, this is not the work of the devil, it is at most a tad irresponsible”.
While others suspected the entire thing was nothing more than a “bad taste” joke.
One commenter said: “I know the lady you are referring to and she is one of the best mums I know.
“I suspect a large amount of hyperbole has gone into this, and you are taking things a bit too literally.”
But amazinggracie was still unimpressed, writing: “If it’s a big joke then I’ll accept that but it’s just in really bad taste.
“I can’t see the humour in leaving your kids alone in a hotel room”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4534502/mum-sparks-furious-debate-drugs-kids-leaves-them-alone-hotel-room/
