Travelling with children is stressful. No arguments there.
Myself and my partner recently took our three year old to Rome for a family wedding. It was the first time we had taken her abroad. Since the abduction of Madaliene McCann we are very security focused. Prior to leaving we printed out up to date pictures of our daughter along with all her vital statistics in Italian.
While going through security at the airports (4 times in total) only once did the guard check the child's identity against the passport. Even so, it would be very hard for anyone not familiar with our daughter to recognise her from her passport as we got it a year and a half ago.
Better controls should be put in place. It should not be easy to take a child across a border. Why has eye recognition not been applied to passports? Our children need better protection.
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Hi Helen,
I agree. I brought my 2 to the UK last week and had a similar experience. I guess they will do something about it when a child goes missing from Ireland.
Mairead