Posted on 06/05/2010 1:16:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Why do you keep harassing people on here saying that they are “perfect.” Since when does not leaving one’s kid to FRY alive mean they are perfect. How about showing an inkling of common sense on here?
Oh, but Mary, don’t you know that are just deluded and think we are “perfect,” since this is what this guy keeps saying. He seems to be a bit confused.
Yes, yes, yes!!! Thank you. Like I said to this srweaver person on here, one’s priorities show up in these cases.
So you are saying you are part of this wonderful gene pool, eh?
It’s beyond my comprehension as well.
To your three posts:
Thank you for calling me, and others who posted, swine — I disagree.
Sorry if my priorities displease you — I am the father of six, a single wage earner family, so my wife could stay home and raise our children, and teach them our values.
We all know there are no perfect parents, that is not the issue. However, some here are claiming to have never forgotten a child, EVER, in any circumstances, and so constitute themselves a “perfect” parent in that regard. You all have my applause, and I thank God for his grace in your lives, even thought some of you may not recognize it.
As for myself, I reiterate that I am glad God has covered for me and protected my kids, both from circumstances inside or outside of my control.
Enjoy shaking the dust off your feet — but I don’t consider myself a bad parent, though not “perfect,” I am good enough (by God’s grace and with His help).
Thank-you!
“So you are saying you are part of this wonderful gene pool, eh?”
Sweet comment, thanks. I guess you are in the “jerk” gene pool.
As usual, we had a hero bringing up the rear in American society. This man is a hero although he should have taken the kid out of the car before calling 911.
Easily rankled too, I see? No, I am the “jerk” who thinks that babies are more important than wallets.
I am not easily rankled. You insulted my family. There are some notable people among them and I am very proud to be part of my family. There is nothing wrong with them.
I too believe that babies are more valuable than wallets, and never implied otherwise.
Very sensible idea, I like the purse idea too. It does not mean numbers of purses are more important than children. Any failsafe type system is a good idea IMO.
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Fatal Distraction:
Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html
Good article. I hope everyone clicks on your link and reads it. I have cut and pasted some of the portion having to do with the “attitudes” expressed by some in this thread:
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“This is a case of pure evil negligence of the worse kind . . . He deserves the death sentence.”
“I wonder if this was his way of telling his wife that he didn’t really want a kid.”
“He was too busy chasing after real estate commissions. This shows how morally corrupt people in real estate-related professions are.”
These were readers’ online comments to The Washington Post news article of July 10, 2008, reporting the circumstances of the death of Miles Harrison’s son. These comments were typical of many others, and they are typical of what happens again and again, year after year in community after community, when these cases arise. A substantial proportion of the public reacts not merely with anger, but with frothing vitriol.
Ed Hickling believes he knows why. Hickling is a clinical psychologist from Albany, N.Y., who has studied the effects of fatal auto accidents on the drivers who survive them. He says these people are often judged with disproportionate harshness by the public, even when it was clearly an accident, and even when it was indisputably not their fault.
Humans, Hickling said, have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible.
In hyperthermia cases, he believes, the parents are demonized for much the same reasons. “We are vulnerable, but we don’t want to be reminded of that. We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.”
After Lyn Balfour’s acquittal, this comment appeared on the Charlottesville News Web site:
“If she had too many things on her mind then she should have kept her legs closed and not had any kids. They should lock her in a car during a hot day and see what happens.”
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Very sad is the auto industry opposition and the psychological reluctance toward accepting human fallibility by others that keeps us from protecting our children better (there is NO “perfect” solution) with mechanical devices.
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