I just got done watching the movie Taken with Liam Neeson.

I have to say that the movie just underscores what I've always thought. Minors shouldn't be travelling alone to foreign countries.

Last summer, Ethan went to Germany with his German brother, Hannes. Only with family like Hannes would I have been comfortable sending him there.

So many people disappear each year. Most don't get the national attention that Natalee Holloway did, but, they do vanish.

That movie raises my mom-wants-to-kick-some-booty instincts with regards to the protection of my own children.