I am really disheartened by some of the reply’s in this thread, but not yours Sitetest.
The family’s rights have been superceded by the authority of the Nanny State/Govt. The Govt. is now the highest moral authority above religion and family.
A natural extension of the nanny state is that everyone is in your business, calling, reporting this or that supposed violation, most of the time from news accounts without sufficient information or knowledge of intent.
Similar to this thread.
Last month or so from the news, a woman left here kids in the suv on a hot day in the market parking lot, she was gone a few minutes, when a busybody pulls up notices the kids promptly gets on the phone to report it to police, as she is still on the phone the mother comes back sees this lady calling the police on her and then the situation got out of hand. Mother runs over lady on phone. Situation amuck. Not exactly the perfect example, but sufficient.
“Mother runs over lady on phone.”
The best way to convince to the authorities that your decision to leave your kids in a hot car JUST FOR A FEW MINUTES, which, if it really is just few minutes, is not going to cause them harm,
is NOT to run over a lady with a phone.
The mother in your example had several arrests, including assault and domestic violence, to her name, before she ran over the people. Not a great example for your point.