Good morning..As has been said innumerable times...”It seems weird that one needs a license to have a dog, but not to have kids..”
This was probably not a good example of good parenting, but I’d like to hear the whole story before I judge.
When I was a kid, my parents often left us kids in the car when they went into the store and it was not just a quick dash in to get milk. My best guess is that it was more than 30 minutes but less than an hour. I don’t recommend that nowadays, but it was nothing unusual when I was a kid.
According to the article, the hogs were tearing up her property. Were they a danger to her kids? If so, one could argue that she was protecting them. Was the 8-year-old reliable and responsible? Was the car in a protected place? Did the kids have blankets?
These days the kids have been trained by the schools to tattle on their parents any time they disagree with the way the parents treat them or the way they handle any situation. I will bet that any one of us could come up with several examples from our childhood that today could be prosecuted as “neglect” or “abuse.” I’m not defending genuine neglect or abuse. Beating your kids or leaving them while you go out clubbing is abominable parenting. But let’s save the legal charges for genuine neglect and abuse.