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I could be dreaming but I don't believe this ever happened when I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's.
How about anyone else, can you actually remember one that we can goggle and read about.
I remember one lovely spring night, coming home from a relatives and falling asleep. Weather was about 70, we had a HUGE 4 car garage. no chance for me to be cooked in the car. Air was not on in the house, just a lovely night. I wanted to sleep in the car, my dad said nope you are coming in the house. Picked me up and carried me in. What a killjoy. haha
I could be dreaming but I don't believe this ever happened when I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's.
How about anyone else, can you actually remember one that we can goggle and read about.
I remember one lovely spring night, coming home from a relatives and falling asleep. Weather was about 70, we had a HUGE 4 car garage. no chance for me to be cooked in the car. Air was not on in the house, just a lovely night. I wanted to sleep in the car, my dad said nope you are coming in the house. Picked me up and carried me in. What a killjoy. haha
Yeah there's probably some good reasons though.
No social media
Cars didn't lock automatically after you exited car / no click button locks from key FOB
Kids weren't in car seats as much
Less distracted parents (cell phones etc...)
No social media
Cars didn't lock automatically after you exited car / no click button locks from key FOB
Kids weren't in car seats as much
Less distracted parents (cell phones etc...)
And fewer cars with air conditioning so windows were left open
I could be dreaming but I don't believe this ever happened when I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's.
How about anyone else, can you actually remember one that we can goggle and read about.
I remember one lovely spring night, coming home from a relatives and falling asleep. Weather was about 70, we had a HUGE 4 car garage. no chance for me to be cooked in the car. Air was not on in the house, just a lovely night. I wanted to sleep in the car, my dad said nope you are coming in the house. Picked me up and carried me in. What a killjoy. haha
It happened back then, today you just have 5x the population and 10x the media coverage and they love those sensational stories especially when you can in this day and age immediately splash the dead kids face up there for extra ratings.
Also in response to the OP, these things happen year round except in the other months they don't die or at least not as fast.
It takes a shockingly short period of time to kill someone in a car in 100 degree weather.
I really hate stories like this. On a 96 degree day, so imagine the temperature inside. Adults would open the door and bolt out of there after only a few seconds. It's torture.
Then things like this will keep happening so deal with it. People with mental issues shouldn't be allowed to have children. If said people feel that they are capable of harming their future children they should not be allowed to have them.
No more complaining about children being left in cars and getting heat stroke and dying. Let it go.
How does that even make sense? In real life was there ever anyone who sat and thought, "Gee, I think that someday I might be capable of harming my future children." I think not. If a person was in such a mental state in the first place that they thought such a thought, they were probably beyond making a wise decision to get themselves sterilized.
And fewer cars with air conditioning so windows were left open
And those windows had old-fashioned handles to roll them down, so a kid who fell asleep in the car--no carseat--and was forgotten by his caregivers, could roll the windows down by a pretty young age.
No? Then what is the answer for stupid parents? . An average of 37 kids die from being in a hot car each year in the U.S., in some cases on a relatively mild day with only 70 F temperatures.
That's 37 children who will never have their first kiss or go to prom or have kids of their own.
That's just ONE site I'm sure it jumps up and down depending. IF your too busy with your life that you forgot that your children were in the car, then your not a fit parent. Why? Because your life no matter how successful came before them. I highly doubt there is a way to prove they were loving parent or how successful they were. Odds are they were on their cellphones or playing on social media to even care.
Well, that's your over-simplified and judgmental stance, but I don't see how you could have read the Washington Post article and still clutch on to that point of view other than from the desire to point fingers.
Lynn Balfour was obviously not on her cellphone or playing on social media. She was a military veteran working at JAG. A series of circumstances led to Bryce's death, and she is honest and speaks out about it. At least she is doing something to try to prevent it from happening again. Sitting aloft on the high horse isn't helpful to anyone.
None of this has to do with the original post story, which is about a woman who deliberately let her children die.
I read this article 5 years ago--it's one of the best pieces of journalism I've ever seen.
It is. Unfortunately, we have so many people on this thread, and in society in general, who do not have the discipline or intellectual curiosity to read an in-depth, full-length, well-researched article. The article must have been posted on these types of threads thirty times now, and it's still obvious that people haven't bothered to read it.
People just like to judge and point fingers at other people. It's one of those human nature defects that we should all be working to overcome in ourselves.
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