[californianmom]

The mother is a pediatrician. If she is so absent minded as to forget her child in a car, or not to double check that the child was dropped off at day care, I wouldn’t allow her to prescribe an aspirin for my child.

Apparently, some times these incidents are charged as crimes and sometimes not. There was a case here in L. A. a couple of years ago in which a university professor (dad) left the baby in the hot car and it died. No charges. But in another case, a mom left the kids in the car in the driveway, went inside and got plastered and passed out, and the kids died. She was charged with some sort of homicide.

Getting drunk and forgetting your child or getting involved in your work and forgetting about your child, either way, you negligently forgot the child and put your own needs above the needs of the child.

I really don’t get people who do this. My children are always foremost in my mind over anything else I’ve got going on during the day.

[khnyny]

The mother is a pediatrician. If she is so absent minded as to forget her child in a car, or not to double check that the child was dropped off at day care, I wouldn’t allow her to prescribe an aspirin for my child.

Exactly, except, you can't give children aspirin - Reye's Syndrome.

[wardaddy]

My children are always foremost in my mind

me too.....and in the car they are usually loud enough they are hard to ignore