Thank You Mommy and Daddy…

30.07.07

Posted under: Family

… for not neglecting me by leaving me in a car to die of a heat stroke.

I read the news recently from my hometown about a man who left his 11-month baby in his car while he went to work. His partial excuse for that was because his daily routine had changed for the day. To put it simply, he forgot and through his negligence, his son was killed.

It happens too often and every summer I see at least one news story about this.

The question that comes to mind is how? How can a parent be so willing to forget his/her own child? You figure that you spend so much time and money on this child, this beautiful creature that you have created and to throw it all away because you forgot?

That’s despicable. Yes, we are only humans and we are apt to err, but one mistake shouldn’t cost somebody his/her life. True there are some parents who can be the best parents ever to their child, but it can all be lost with one mistake, one negligent mistake.

So this post is here for me to thank my parents for not neglecting me in such a way. Yes, they were rarely home when I was growing up and perhaps you could call that negligence too, but I know that they were not home because they were working in order for me and their family to have better lives.

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fruityoaty answered:

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 8:50 am GMT-8

Extremely despicable act. There is never any excuse to hit a child or… in the case above… leave a child alone by him/herself.
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Stockton Boy announced:

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 3:54 pm GMT-8

Fuck kids. You know why he forgot about his “beautiful” creature? Because he probably didn’t want it in the first place. Postmortem depression is also because the woman doesn’t like the creature that she produced. They can spend all this money on it and take care of it all the time, but a baby in the back seat when you running late for work or you just aren’t used to that routine and it isn’t crying, then yeah, most people will forget about it. I can only call it “extremely despicable” when they kill intensionally the creature. Like that woman who drowned her creatures in a bath tub. That is despicable. But a creature forgotten in the back seat of the car is not despicable. Just stupid.
Oh, and thanks mom and dad for what you have done.
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Kaisa shouted:

Wednesday, August 1, 2007 @ 1:31 am GMT-8

That is extremely sad and shows the unbelievable stupidity of human beings. Unfortunately I have to read about similar cases nearly every week. The current ‘neglect your child trend’ in Finland seems to be leaving your very young children at home while you go to a bar and proceed to get absolutely pissed out of your brain.
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Mari replied:

Wednesday, August 1, 2007 @ 3:03 pm GMT-8

Some people just forget everything. Mari is one of those people. If Mari doesn’t write down what the hell she has to do, she’ll forget.

Mari’s not saying forgetfulness justifies the death of his child, though. It is really irresponsible for that guy to not figure out there are such things as day care. He’s obviously not going to win father of the year. And he was obviously not ready to be a father.
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Julie wrote:

Wednesday, August 1, 2007 @ 7:49 pm GMT-8

Yay for having good parents. Really though how can one person be so negligent and forget they have a child. I think if I had a child I’d be constantly checking up on it. *Shrug* some people are idiots.
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Amy announced:

Thursday, August 2, 2007 @ 12:58 pm GMT-8

I hear stories about this too, and it is hard to understand how parents could be so caught up in their own worlds as to forget the things that should be most important to them.
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Christine answered:

Friday, August 3, 2007 @ 7:17 pm GMT-8

That is so awful. I think I’ve been reading or hearing about this for the past 4 years now. How can someone “forget” their baby? Or their pet? Or their elderly parent? What kind of a person has such a busy life that they can’t remember little things like that? I have to wonder if they’re secretly wanting rid of that living person.
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Stockton Boy replied:

Saturday, August 4, 2007 @ 1:51 am GMT-8

Sometimes you just got to think that god is a big asshole. He controls everything correct? Or so christians (and the like) tell us so. This omnipotent being is truly evil. He made the father do what he did to his kid. He made the mother kill her kids. God is sick in the head. I wonder how so many can believe that he is an omni benevolent entity, controls everything, but not when it comes to accidental deaths. The bible says that he is in control of everything and has a master plan. So why blame parents for god killing a baby?
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Kris said:

Saturday, August 4, 2007 @ 7:59 am GMT-8

Stuff like that also happens a lot in Tucson. Every year around July at least one (but usually more) children are left. A few are discovered in the car before it’s too late, most aren’t.

Amazing that they just “forget” that way. Even if your routine changed, how do you not remember the little baby in your backseat? Still, even though this can’t atone for his mistake, nor is it enough punishment, this guy must be going through incredible hell just by knowing that he managed to forget and thus kill someone so important.
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Kavitha stated:

Monday, August 6, 2007 @ 7:17 am GMT-8

I don’t think that’s even an excuse. And It is indeed despicable..how could one just “forget”? It is a matter of life and death, and such poor decisions can tilt the matter on either side.

Humanity disgraces itself with every passing day.
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Jessica said:

Monday, August 6, 2007 @ 12:35 pm GMT-8

First of all, I’m not saying that I forgot is a legitimate excuse for anything. However, all of us have been in a situation where we are so busy with what goes on in our day-to-day lives, that we simply shut down to things that aren’t part of that. If I recall about one of the guys who left his child in the car, he wasn’t used to take his child to day care. I know what you are thinking, still not an excuse.

But the thing that pisses me off about the whole situation is that only one of the guys is being charged with ‘homicide’, and it’s the guy who went out and checked on his daughter. The most amazing thing about this guy is that he just checked on her 45 minutes before, and when he came back, she was dead. Amazing how quick something like that happens.
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Kelly voiced:

Tuesday, August 7, 2007 @ 9:52 pm GMT-8

I know, I can’t even begin to understand how these things happen everyday either. I was unlucky enough to come from an abusive home, and I don’t think I’ll ever understand it.

Why have kids at all? Why even bother if you’re going to mistreat or “forget” about them?

Honestly, I don’t think it has anything to do with forgetting. I don’t think it matter how much you hate your child, or how un-used to having a child you are–you can’t possibly forget about one.

They don’t forget, they just don’t care.
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Jaclyn responded:

Friday, August 10, 2007 @ 11:00 am GMT-8

Wow…it’s horrible that it keeps happening. In my country I’ve heard of it like twice or something. It’s very disturbing, how could someone just forget their kid? It’s quite strange.
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