MY GOD! HOW THE HECK DO YOU FORGET YOUR OWN CHILD??? I just don't understand these people? How preoccupied can they be?
Mary and Joseph left Jesus in the Temple..........
I can understand how this could happen, with both parents thinking the other had the baby. This happened one time to my 8-year-old niece at church, when her parents (who had driven separately to church because of separate responsibilities) each thought she was going home with the other. When they got home they immediately realized their mistake because she wasn't with either of them!
Meanwhile, my niece was safe with friends at church and was soon home again with her family. I'm glad this story turned out the same way, with the baby reunited with its family.
There are many sad cases of parental neglect. I don't think this is one of them.
When you have parents in separate cars, it can happen. Years ago, my husband and I took our crew of 4 to their pre-school open house. Time came to go home, and we climbed in our vehicles. We got into the garage and found we only had 3 kids. Thank goodness the school was only about 2 minutes away. I got to the school, and there was my daughter [age 4] having some more punch and cookies. I felt like a dog that this should happen to my child. Thank goodness she was completely unaware.
I just don't know how you could forget a baby. My older children would have surely reminded me .
About 50 miles down the road, one of the older kids said, "Hey Dad? Where's Danny?" They were mortified....(no cellphones back then) Yet... when they returned... found the kid eating ice cream and watching the ball game with the establishment's owner. CPS nor the cops were called ....because the guy knew they'd be back. Stuff happens.
Do you have children? Thi is not mean to be any kind of jdgement, I'm just wondering.
I have 4 daughters, and i understand how this could happen. Thankfully, it never did!
I'd guess both parents have Alzheimers. I'm surprised they did not forget that they have a baby.
Your probably going to get a lot of anecdotal replies.
My Mom accedently left me at the grocery store when I was two. I think she expected me to get in the car on my own, and I didn't. She didn't realize I wasn't there until a few miles away, my brother asked, "Where's 'The_Victor?'" Even the best parents can have a moment of absentmindedness. We are human.
My little brother got left at the grocery store once.
I totally understand this happening, it happened to me. 2 months after my son was born I was at a local CVS I set down his carrier in an aisle and started looking at cards, next thing I know I am in the check out line without my son! I hurried back to aisle 4 and retrieved him. Being a new father I cut myself a break.
It happens to people who are good parents, usually a lack of communication or an assumption. One parent assumes that the other parent has the child, and doesn't.
It happened to my wife and I with our youngest. We were at a church carnival. I took our daughter on a ride and my wife took our older son on a ride. Each of us thought the other had our youngest son... we didn't. We left him in his stroller and somebody found him by himself and reported it to the people running the carnival. They announced over the PA about a little boy left alone in a stroller, and it hit me like a ton of bricks! I knew it was my youngest! I ran to the area where he was at (carrying my older boy) and my wife was doing the same thing. Our youngest was upset but happy to see us. We were thankful to the lady who noticed him. There was a couple women there who accused us of being bad parents and were yelling at us... we left. It was a pretty awful experience all the way around. This was an honest mistake. I thought my wife had our youngest and she thought I had him. I bet the same thing happened to the family who left the baby in the shopping cart. They didn't sound like bad people.
MY GOD! HOW THE HECK DO YOU FORGET YOUR OWN CHILD???
It's understandable considering the season. I hope the family learned a lesson and next time will leave the baby in the trunk of the car. /sarc off
It can be done and during Christmas shopping with more than one family and one family's children in tow, it can happen.
When my youngest was a newborn and asleep in her cradle, I was rounding up my two other children (toddlers at the time) to get into the car to go for a quick errand.
After backing up the car and getting to the top of the hill on our street to wait for traffic, I was checking on the children, who could and occasionally did, unbuckle their seat belts, noticed that the baby was not there. Horrified, I backed up down to our house, opened the garage door and ran into the house, sobbing.
As I ran into the master bedroom, still sobbing, I awakened the sleeping newborn, who also began crying. One of my enterprising toddlers, unbuckled her seat belt and then her sister's, running after me and were crying also.
We spent quite an afternoon wiping up tears all around.