“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 tell me where you would draw the line. Is there a time limit? A temperature? An age limit? Lets be real, people who do this are putting their children at risk. I have 2 kids, 10 and 12 years old, if they do not want to come into the store with me I let them stay in the car. They know that they are not to leave the car. They know not to let anyone into the car. Are they at risk? Sure they are. But they aren’t toddlers. Anyone who feels that it is ok to leave a 4 year old alone in a parking lot should seriously rethink things.