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In reply to the discussion: PARENTS are responsible for the safety of their children. [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)... who has to learn the unfortunate lesson that even if you do your best, your child could still be harned.
I've known tok many who have, even if the "mistake" was as simple as having no other babysitter than a sickly grandparent who didn't hear the boys cooperate to unlock the deadbolts to sneak out while she was diapering the baby, and being so poor you accepted the place toblive offered that was free despite it having an unfenced pond.
It takes less than five minutes of inattention for a child to die. If you actually expect every parent to never, ever have a lapse of attention, you're not one.
Edit to add: Grandmother was actually charged with negligent homicide, when she'd been taking care of those boys ever since her daughter's birth control kept failing. The last baby was actually conceived after the guy had a V. It was pled down but she had to be carried out of the funeral because of an asthma attack from crying so hard even before charges were filed.