Who among you have not had for one split second had a toddler slip away for one’s presence? I know all too well it happened to me. While shopping with my mother and son then about four, I let go of his hand picked up a garment to show my mother and to compare with the one she was holding, turned to my son to get his opinion on which one he preferred, he had disappeared among the long lines of clothing racks. Looking back, he might just as well have fallen into a gorilla pen or worse. I have seen children in public tethered to a harness and leash even one women walking a dog and a child both attached to just such a contraption, there could have been a store sign before entering ‘all children under six must be on a leash’.