what the fuck is wrong with people?

[tattuchu]

Yet another child dies while trapped in a hot car:

http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-man-arrest ... 21021.html

Just what the fuck is wrong with people? The fuck?!

[cronus]

Easy happens. We're smoking the entire planet whilst watching TV too. Something on the discovery channel 'The World Without People' will remind us later - too late again.

[PsychoSerenity]

The death was the 18th case in the United States this year of a child dying after being left in a hot car, according to Kids and Cars, a Kansas City-based organization that collects data on such incidents and works to prevent them.

"The most common circumstance we see is that these are wonderful, loving and otherwise responsible parents who literally forget that the child is in the car," Rollins said.

The number sounds high but given the number of car journeys with busy/distracted parents and young children that happen every year, it's probably still a very rare event. It doesn't sound like they're being actively careless thinking "oh it'll be alright to leave them for a while", more like it's a just a genuine horrific tragedy.

[Seth]

This is what happens when the family structure is disintegrated by the economy and the government and mothers no longer stay home to care for the children and dads have to share the child care burden while also working full time.

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

There's a very good reason for one parent to take that role while the other works, or for both partners to share that responsibility. The reason it has historically been the mother is known as sexism.

[cronus]

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

There's a very good reason for one parent to take that role while the other works, or for both partners to share that responsibility. The reason it has historically been the mother is known as sexism.

Cultural evolution, man the warrior and woman the care giver, Nietzsche explained it all, question is why the guy was driving a car and not a tank in the land of the free - I'll put that one to Seth?

[HomerJay]

This is what happens when the family structure is disintegrated by the economy and the government and mothers no longer stay home to care for the children and dads have to share the child care burden while also working full time.

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

This case sounds like the kids had two dads.

It's Teh Gayz

[Hermit]

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

Yes. And for the same reason females are born with brushed stainless steel or white enamelled skin: It matches all the other kitchen appliances.

[Doubtdispelled]

This is what happens when the family structure is disintegrated by the economy and the government and mothers no longer stay home to care for the children and dads have to share the child care burden while also working full time.

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

Jesus christ, you're such a shithead.

Did you even actually read this story you are commenting on?

The man wasn't even the father, he was a foster parent.

Oh, yeah, he was sharing the child care burden while also working full time. I guess he had no choice. I guess the idea to foster this kid was all his wife's idea.

Fuck off, Seth.

[Gallstones]

This is what happens when the family structure is disintegrated by the economy and the government and mothers no longer stay home to care for the children and dads have to share the child care burden while also working full time.

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

Jesus christ, you're such a shithead.

Did you even actually read this story you are commenting on?

The man wasn't even the father, he was a foster parent.

Oh, yeah, he was sharing the child care burden while also working full time. I guess he had no choice. I guess the idea to foster this kid was all his wife's idea.

Fuck off, Seth.

Did you read the article, there is no "wife", they are a gay couple.

[Gallstones]

This is what happens when the family structure is disintegrated by the economy and the government and mothers no longer stay home to care for the children and dads have to share the child care burden while also working full time.

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

SAHM's have forgotten their infants in cars too. Mothers, historically, committed most infanticides.

[Gallstones]

My understanding, from what I have read, is that the guy is demoralized and having great difficulty coming to terms.
I think every one of us has absent minded moments, the consequences of which are mostly easily fixed. This is one where the consequences are devastating.

[JimC]

This is something that unfortunately happens from time to time in the hot Oz summer. It does not take long at all...

[tattuchu]

It's not just kids, either. As if that weren't bad enough, it's doggies too

[Bella Fortuna]

This is what happens when the family structure is disintegrated by the economy and the government and mothers no longer stay home to care for the children and dads have to share the child care burden while also working full time.

There's a reason why mothers historically have been the homemakers and child stewards.

And one wonders why it's a blokefest around here. Get in your time machine and go back to your perfect yesteryear that never was.