Im not sure what the purpose of this article is. Every summer I read horror stories about children being left in a locked car and dying from heat exhaustion and dehydration. I do not care if you parked your car in the shade with the windows down. I do not care if you didn’t want to wake up your child. I do not care if you were only gone for 10 minutes. YOU DO NOT LEAVE A CHILD UNATTENDED IN A CAR! Parenting 101. How can anyone defend this. This has nothing to do with liberals or democrats. This is common sense. 10 minutes is 9 minutes and 30 seconds longer than it would take for some freak to take your child. This is your kid we’re talking about. Your own comfort should not come before their safety you idiot. I feel as though this system worked. I’m willing to bet that you and the other parents in this story haven’t left your kid in the car again.
“Im not sure what the purpose of this article is. Every summer I read horror stories about children being left in a locked car and dying from heat exhaustion and dehydration. I do not care if you parked your car in the shade with the windows down.”
So you’re worried about kids dying of heat exhaustion and dehydration, but you don’t care that these stories clearly don’t fit that pattern, so the kids are not in danger of that?
I think that’s called “hysteria”.
Then I assume that your child has never been out of your sight for more than 30 seconds, ever.
And since I've read stories about children being abducted from their bedrooms in the night, I assume that you stay awake at their bedside all night long.
The fact is that, despite hysterical reporting to fill the 24 hour news cycle, child abductions by strangers are no more common now than they were 50 years ago, and in the vast majority of missing children cases it's a parent that's responsible.
Frankly, the better question would be if you've ever been out of sight with your child for more than 30 seconds.