Putting an infant in daycare is abusive. There was a day when parenting was held to be a full-time and demanding job rather than something to be delegated. The need for an alarm as a reminder of a child's presence is a sad commentary.
Your views about day care are not everyone's views, you know that right?
You are aware that some people on FR have babies in daycare, right? So why voice your inflammatory ideas just now on this thread?
We have alarms for every kind of contingency. Our pool had an alarm that went off if something over a few pounds hit the water, just in case. We have fire and smoke alarms. We have alarms to not leave keys in car. We have alarms to tell us to put on seat belts.
So we must be forgetful, careless, get distracted, etc. So a baby alarm seems reasonable to me. People are human, they make egregious mistakes.
I agree about the daycare...and it is TOTALLY the father's fault...but I think the daycare should have called and asked where the baby was. It's only common sense and could have helped prevent the tragedy.
I don't like day care, but abusive is a bit strong. Some a very good, some stink.
The cost of living in some places is incredibly high. Maybe these are folks doing the best they can. After all, they could have chosen abortion so they didn't have to deal with the kid at all.
Thank you! Couldn't agree more.