would you confront anybody who leaves a child unattended in a care? Re: baby kidnapping in S.C. (newborn, toddlers)
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Not because they parent differently, but because they are parenting unsafely... .
Unsafely according to YOU not to them. They are the ones who determine what is parenting safely, not you. You decide for your family. They decide for their own.
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Originally Posted by KH02
It's never safe to leave young children in a car alone.
Again, that is YOUR determination, not theirs. YOU think it is never safe to leave them unattended so that is what you should do for your kids. Other people make differrent decisions based on their own assessment of the situation.
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Originally Posted by KH02
Most of whom are strapped in with a harness and cannot get themselves out if there is a problem, whether it be related to a person stealing the car or a car crashing into your car while your kids are in it or a fire or something....you just never know.
All of that may be a concern for you and not such a big concern for other people. I still say you have some nerve telling other people whether they should or should not have had kids simply because they make different parenting choices.
States that currently HAVE laws regarding children left unattended in vehicles:
Washington, Nevada, California, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Michigan, Illinois, Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Hawaii and Connecticut
States that currently have laws if an injury or fatality occurs when a child is left unattended in a motor vehicle: Missouri and Kentucky
States that currently have proposed legislation regarding children left in alone in motor vehicle:
Montana, Arizona, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.
Now, if all these states HAVE or are trying to PASS laws of this nature wouldn't it make sense that its been proven it is a dangerous thing to do?? Yes would be the answer!
Most of these laws do have a certain age of child in the law, most are 10 and under...
Note that 70% of states DO NOT have a law so your post proves that only 30% of the states have any sort of law. 70% of the states leave it parents to decide.
Note that the law in my state (FL) indicates that a child under the age of 6 may be left unattended in a car for no longer than 15 minutes as long as the car is not running and leaving the child does not place the child in imminent danger (heat is an issue here). It does not state that a young child may NEVER be left in a car. So while there is a law, it does not support your claim that a young child should never be left unattended.
Perhaps you think the small number of children who die yearly related to being left alone in a car is not a very high number...which its not statistically. But 1 child is enough deaths to make me choose safer decisions related to leaving them in a car.
I suppose I'll just pray that one of those small amount of children a year isn't one of yours...they are preventable deaths, which are the worst kind for a parent to live through.
But I suppose we can agree to disagree on this one.
Figures you'd reply to that post and not the other one....
What do you want me to say?
I have a very big problem with your judgemental, inflexible attitude towards others who make different choices than you do. Why do you think you are so perfect that anyone who chooses differently than you do should not have had children?
Oh for goodness sakes, KH02, even the states you mention don't care if you leave a child for 5min to run into the dry cleaners. Frankly, I'm surprised you let your kids ride in a car at all since automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for children. Do you let them play outside? Walk to school? Or are you so terrified that they may be one of the 115 children kidnapped this year that you never let them out of your sight?
Honestly, I'm more scared that my children won't be functioning adults because they're terrified of the world around them than I am the car will suddenly burst into flames while I'm picking up the dry cleaning.
we aren't talking about bottle feeding vs breast, or daycare vs working or being single or married with children. THOSE are choices that i don't mind if people make them for themselves and they should for what works best for them. To each their own...
But when it comes to safety I wish that more states would step up and force people to make a safer choice since it has to do with a life and death matter.
I only said that the one woman who wrote in her post that she had three kids and it was a hassle or inconvenience to her to unbuckle them all and bring them in. Because you know the more children you have the more inconveniences you will have. Of course children are going to be a hassle in some situations, but you STILL need to make the safest choice for them.
Oh for goodness sakes, KH02, even the states you mention don't care if you leave a child for 5min to run into the dry cleaners. Frankly, I'm surprised you let your kids ride in a car at all since automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for children. Do you let them play outside? Walk to school? Or are you so terrified that they may be one of the 115 children kidnapped this year that you never let them out of your sight?
Honestly, I'm more scared that my children won't be functioning adults because they're terrified of the world around them than I am the car will suddenly burst into flames while I'm picking up the dry cleaning.
Using an automobile or some type of transportation in most places is necessary to get to work, school etc, unless you live in a walkable city. I don't really equate that to leaving kids in a car alone which can always be avoided and isn't a necessity.
No, they don't walk to school as they are YOUNG children and we dont live in an area where kids can walk.
They play outside supervised by an adult as they are 5 and under.
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