I am sure this has been posted, but Fatal Distraction is a really well done story on parents who have killed their children from forgetting them in a car. I can not imagine the pain and anguish when you realize the mistake you made. I can't imagine being able to forgive myself or my husband for such a stupid…

Wow, how ignorant of you.

They have. It was actually invented by scientists at NASA after a colleague left his baby in the car and the baby died. They could not get commercial funding to manufacture it. First, there were liability concerns—if the product didn't work and a kid died, the manufacturer could get sued. But second, there was no…

Maybe if he actually cared, he'd have remembered his child.

So your kid is not important to your husband ?

Unfortunately, you are not more correct than science.

And you know, that's why I don't get all the judgement. I'm not a superstitious person but, I like to think of myself of capable of —- mercy? grace? I don't really know the word for it. Empathy? These comments leave me reeling. They almost make me feel like it brings bad luck (I know it doesn't, truly, I'm not that…

Read the article. Seriously, read it. You need doubt, if you are certain this could not happen to you you are setting yourself up for it to happen. That little voice in the back of your head that says "this is not right" is the voice you need to feed.

I'm sorry, you just said that your husband forgot your kid. Sorry to hear that your kid isn't that important to him.

I've not forgotten mine, either. But I know I am infinitely fallible, and that's why I leave my purse at their feet, in the back of the car. I'm hoping that this is enough until they are big enough to get themselves out, if necessary.

Nope, being human with a brain makes it happen :( . The people who this *happens to* do not suck, they are loving and devoted parents who for well known, scientifically established reasons COMPLETELY forgot their child was in the car.

Read this- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…

He probably did think about the baby. He probably thought about the baby being at daycare.

Yay, here's a prize for you?

I've forgotten that I was watching my brothers. Sitting in a dark house, around 9 p.m., bored. Decide to get dressed and go to the store, I have my shoes and coat on and am walking out the door, the ONLY reason I didn't go anywhere was that my mother's car was not in the driveway. They…

Leave your phone, your purse or your wallet next to the kid, in the back. Leave a bear or plush something in the passenger seat that you then sit in the car seat when you take the kid out.

This story gives a pretty good explanation. I have to warn you, though, that it's absolutely heartbreaking to read.

I can't imagine the unbearable pain the father is in. Unfortunately, its not something that happens due to negligence, it's more due to how our brains can go into "autopilot" and forget seemingly important things. I wish we could figure out a fool proof way to stop it from happening, some sort of censor that might…

Death by embarrassment is a serious medical risk, probably sufficient alone to justify such a law.

I actually know a family with one of those pages for their son. Not very well, but they are related to a very good friend of mine. While I'm pretty sure they are legit, and the kid really did have the illness, go through the surgeries and treatment and seems to be doing really well these days, it's kind of weird how…

There's also bicycles, buses, and shoe patrol. And friends who have licenses. If you're 17 and you need to get to Walgreen's, it's just not that hard.

I can picture my mom doing this when I was that age. Not for crazy religious reasons - she wasn't that type - but just because CONTROL. She couldn't stand the fact that sometimes I'd go to my room and shut the door because what could I be doing in there by myself???? (answer: getting the hell away from her for two…