Since 1998 636 children have died in this country due to heatstroke from being left in a car. Nearly 40 per year. True the odds of your child being hit by lightning are astronomical. Does that mean you would send him out in a storm holding a shower rod? Why even take the chance that something could happen to your kid while you are away for even 5 minutes? You and so many others need to get your priorities in order. Trust me taking the extra few minutes to unbuckle your kid and take him/her with you is nothing compared to losing a child in some horrible way. 636 completely preventable deaths.
How many have died while in foster care and otherwise in the custody of the state?
What are the odds that a kid who is never left alone for five minutes will grown up to be a balanced adult?
That is a totally specious argument. Not one of those children died because their parents ran into a store for ten minutes. You need to get your priorities out of my business.
Why take the chance? It’s called living. If you want to live in some false insulated bubble, that’s your choice. My kids will face life head on with the knowledge that comes from making decisions that have consequences and the consequences of a five minute nap in a car (where I can watch them from a storefront) doesn’t even register.
I have raised more kids than you, and can damn sure tell you that getting the nanny state involved in a family’s life is worse than your most paranoid delusions.