you don’t know. you could fall and be knocked unconscious. you could be abducted, or the child could. we have plenty of carjackings with infants in the car whilst mom/dad ran inside to pay for gas. not sure i would go so far as call the police, but i certainly wouldn’t leave my kid (and i never did) in teh car alone
BTW—if you have more than one kid, life gets more complicated.
And the child could more likely be struck by lightning. The odds of any of those situations are astronomical and would not be affected one iota by the fact they the parent ran into a store. Paranoia is the drug of choice in liberal land—makes perfect grist for the absurd law mills.
You would seriously rather destroy a child’s life by siccing the state on the parent? That is not healthy concern; it’s plain evil.
A family member of mine who worked in a retail store told this story about an apparently educated white woman who fainted dead away in the store. The child with her was 9 years old. The counterperson and cashier searched the woman for a Medical ID bracelet and finally went in her purse looking for some ID or an emergency number, but came up with nothing, while she remained out cold and the EMTs were still not there. They asked the little girl who to call, but she did not know. She said her father lived in a state approximately halfway across the U.S. The girl did not know her address or any home phone, because they were "staying with a friend." When the woman came to after about ten minutes, she said she had some sort of health syndrome and fainted away like this frequently — AND she was angry at the salesperson and cashier for having called the EMTs.
Unbelievable; magical thinking — "nothing bad will ever happen to me."