if it weren't for the children

Every now and then the news report about people who deliberately endanger themselves.

Now, that's okay if you only put your own life at risk. Thinking you should also risk the lives of your (young) children is what ticks me off.

It doesn't matter whether it's parents who deem child safety seats to be unnecessary or parents taking their kids on a sailing trip near the Horn of Africa - or parents taking their children to Yemen.

Just a few days ago nine foreigners were kidnapped in Yemen. The bodies of two German nurses and a female South Korean teacher were already found. A British engineer and a German couple with three kids (two girls, one boy) are still missing.

From German news sites I could gain that the boy of four years old. From his and the parents' age I guess the girls are somewhere below ten.

Who in his right mind would take young children to Yemen? Yemen! A country I'd only visit if the rest on the 10th came with me!

I hope the missing will make it out of there alive but the parents should face charges for wilfully putting their children's lives at risk.