Question asked: "What is something you should never leave alone?"
Well the usual cropped up, food or boiling pot on stove, Pet, etc. but the number one answer in the survey was guess what?
You got it.
Baby/Child.
You should never leave a baby or child alone.
A game show in television and the people it surveyed get this why doesn't main stream media such as CNN and Mark O'Meara as well as so many people?
Because its now expanded to a general attack on prosecuting, incarcerating or even condemning people who do.
I'm not talking thirteen year old kids here but little ones.
Mr. O'Meara in his article attacked for instance the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of a mother who left her children home alone. They went into the neighbors yard and into their pool where they drowned.
The kids were three and six years old.
Three and six.
Think about those numbers for a minute.
Because that is what a man who I held a great deal of respect for in standing up and keeping an innocent man from prison for simply defending himself defended on CNN.
Its okay now to leave little kids on their own and shame on anyone who thinks or God forbid does otherwise such as concerned citizens, cops, prosecutors or child welfare officials.
He attacked all those, lamenting the removal of children from those parents, the condemnation of the parents, arrest of the parents, the prosecution of the parents and of course any jail time for the parents. Not to mention attacking busybodies such as the concerned citizen who reported the nine year old girl left alone daily for eight hours in a public park after witnessing her for over five hours alone.
But it didn't end with defending this woman who got her kids killed, oh no, he went on to defend the woman in Phoenix Az who left her babies in a hot car while she went for a job interview for over an hour, a woman who left a seven year old alone, the woman who left the nine year old alone, another who left five and eleven year olds alone and other cases.
He failed to mention things like in the Arizona case it was over a hundred degrees in the sun. He made the death of those two children out to be a tragic accident instead of death by willful neglect of the children and of course condemns the mother being jailed for aggravated manslaughter.
He justifies his article in calls not to go after parents such as these because in most of the cases the children suffered no harm or won't suffer any harm.
He goes on to justify leaving young children alone by justifying doing so because most of the parents are poor, child care is expensive and we're criminalizing poverty.
What he fails to understand is that just because most of the children were fine and unharmed which he uses as justification and to condemn those who go after the mothers doesn't mean its safe.
Its not.
He even makes the ridiculous charge that unless a person has had to face and make the choice of working or leaving a child alone they aren't entitled to judge the actions of those who do leave their children alone.
Bull$hit!
I haven't been raped Mr. O'mara but I know its wrong and I am perfectly entitled to condemn rapists and judge them as being monsters. Same for a whole plethora of crimes, I don't have to be one to judge one.
Because only a few children supposedly have been harmed or killed by being left alone doesn't make it right and is such a ridiculous assertion that I can't believe you said it.
Its like saying "Play Russian Roulette because most of the time it won't hit that one single bullet" because that is exactly what the parents of these children are doing with these kids' lives.
Its exactly what you're supporting them doing.
Maybe not this time, maybe not next time or the time after that but sooner or later that child left alone is going to be hurt or killed.
The other beyond belief statement that just boggles the mind is its better to leave a child alone in a public park for eight hours than have that child be watched by an "Unqualified" adult.
What the hell?
What qualification do you need to watch a nine year old child?
I mean knowing CPR is nice but really? For someone to sit home with the child who is "Unqualified" , in what I don't know, but its worse than sending the child to the park all day.
His rationale is its better for the child to be among lots of kids and adults at the park than at home with said "Unqualified" person.
What in the hell are the qualifications of the "Kids" at the park or maybe those "Adults" who don't know this child from Adam and certainly aren't tasked with looking out for her in any way.
After all one of those "Adults" did look out after this little girl and Mr. O'Mara condemns the person for doing so because they cared and were appalled that a little one was all alone in a city park for hours upon hours each and every day.
I don't know what era Mr. O'Mara was raised in but he doesn't look all that old. I was raised in the 60s and 70s and I can tell you that I was never left alone at six, seven, nine or eleven. My grandparents would never have done that under any circumstances.
Everybody knew it too. It just wasn't done. It was bad plain and simple.
Even into the 80s, remember the hoopla about "Latch key kids?"
So it must have been in the 50s then because it sure wasn't from 60 onward. Frankly I don't believe they let little kids go off alone back then for long periods either.
It defies common sense.
On top of it all he brings up the national outrage that going after these negligent mothers has brought. He uses it to justify his stance that punitive action against them is wrong.
I say the outrage itself is wrong. I just can't believe we have become that idiotic that enormous sums of people are having a fit over protecting children like this.
Its just unbelievable.
Where is common sense?
I guess on a game show on television because here in America it seems lost.
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