Posted on 07/22/2005 3:08:56 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
I don't understand how this happens. The rule in our house has always been,when you get home, GET THE BABY FIRST--before groceries, baseball gloves, cold milk, fast food, cell phones laptops, cold drinks--including beer. FIRST.
Well, thank you, but I am not active duty any longer...I've been out for about a year now. :)
It makes me wonder too if folks who insist that mom's should stay home no matter would mind subsidizing that. Unless, of course, they think there should be income requirements for having a child. This attitude also fails to take into account women (or men, for that matter) who are single parents due to the death of a spouse, ect. They have no choice but to work. And some folks, let's face it...are not cut out to be stay at home parents. I suspect that that was always the case, as a matter of fact.
And, as everyone knows, if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy! LOL I know I am much more content as a stay at home mom than I was as a working mom, but that's not true of everyone.
It would be harder to forget a baby strapped in a car seat next to you in the front seat next to you facing forward.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt to have some parental awareness drills and security guards checking large parking lots with the public's help in the summertime. No government intrusion, of course :-). It would be strictly a communty awareness grass roots type of activism.
I think maybe if I didn't have a dog before kids and hear news stories about dying in hot cars, not to mention that we didn't tend to leave kids in cars unattended as a general principle, it could have happened to me or anybody; that's why I hate to bash parents when a tragedy like this happens.
Maybe some kind of alarm system can be devised. Surely somebody can come up with something.
Not only that, some folks aren't cut out to be parents at all! Goodness knows it's the hardest thing I've ever done.
Yes, some folks should never have reproduced, that's for certain!
This is the perfect crime.
I saw a woman do this exact thing and wasn't charged and no jail time.
If a person wanted to get rid of their kid, like Susan Smith, all they would have to do is wait for a really hot day and forget to drop them off at daycare. No proof it wasn't a tragic accident.
'Mommy radar'
I think the Daycare people should have followed up.
Reason? What if the child was being kept home with something infectious which the rest of the children might
be exposed to? As a responsible daycare operator a call should have been made.
I wouldn't leave a child, especially a five month old in a daycare which didn't think enough of my child not to find out where that child was - if I hadn't called explaining the absence - and the child had not been delivered.
I see people driving talking on phones all the time, I see people in the grocery store going over last night's party...
what's so hard these days to make a phone call!
In our next evolution we are going to have phone implants in our heads and we won't need batteries.
Sometimes the grief of the offender is worse than punishment by the courts.
My aunt and uncle had sixteen children, all home at once. They only owned one car and so had to make two trips if they went somewhere together. They never left a child in the car. In fact, the one and only time they forgot was leaving one child at church on the second trip. If they could keep up with sixteen children, this father could have managed to remember one in his care. And I don't care how busy, stressed or absent minded he was. There is NO excuse.
Neither of which does a thing for the poor soul that was locked in the car. Some things can't be fixed or paid for.
They may have also had a "choppy" schedule, like taking turns dropping the baby off at daycare each morning. Mom does it some days, and Dad does in on others.
I just with that, instead of this situation, his mistake had been to forget to pick her up from daycare at the end of the day instead of forgetting to drop her off in the morning. I wonder how often the two actually happen -- forgetting to drop them off vs. forgetting to pick them up?
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