As a parent myself I too was angered when I found out they left the kids alone while they went off for a meal. As middle class doctors they really should have known better, and from what I heard, child minders were ofered but they were too snooty to accept because they didn't want some stranger looking after their kids.
I consider myself a lower class nobody, If It was me I am sure i would be in a cell now for neglect because they even said it wasn't the first time they had done it, I don't understand why their other kids wern't taken off them as soon as they arrived home, because the months after the kidnap they were all over europe on their campaign, even got a free trip to meet the pope, and not once did you see their other kids with them, so did they smart up and leave them with family or are the others being left? i can only assume the short sharp shock of loosing maddie made them more responsible for their other kids, but even so I still think they have got away with a hell of a lot and only have themselves to blame