I didn’t know that I needed this, but I fucking needed it.

I saw. I laughed.

nah, face tats are still the kiss of death here in Whitesville.  Scares old people, you see, which would cut Applebee’s business by over half. 

ahahaahahah. But seriously I hope this lady does have her kid taken away, at least temporarily, while she gets help cuz clearly she isn’t currently fit.

Dollars to donuts she’ll be out on bail in a week, in a rehabilitation program the next week and a Black college girl’s manager at Applebee’s the next. White Jesus knows this KKKountry takes care of their own.

The bottom of a dumpster?

I would bet good $$ that she’s the kind of trailer trash girl that would hang out in area bars looking for a Fort Hood man in hopes that she would get hitched and taken care of.

That poor child.

Do you have kids? Losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a parent. Being responsible for that death? OMG, these poor people will be living in a hell of their own making for the rest of their lives. Adding to that would be cruel.

Social services is always notified in these kinds of cases (at least, where I am they are).

In our society? You bet. How else would we falsely comfort ourselves with our supposed superiority?

Uh, bro, they do. They live with the idea that they murdered the child they loved in a horrific manner for the rest of their life. There’s nothing we, as a society, can do that would be more devastating.

I’m a new first-time mom with serious “baby brain” brought on by hormonal shifts and sleep deprivation. I also have an irregular schedule. I work from home two days a week (with a babysitter) and go into the office three days, but on one day family watches the baby and on the other two he goes to daycare. I’m pretty…

That being said, they still need to be held to account, to some extent

Having your child die a gruesome death from a horrible mistake seems like punishment enough.

No they don’t.

This would never happen to me.

Right, but the whole point of the article is that they did not leave their children to die in a hot car because they were “busy at work.” I’m surprised that’s all you got out of Gene Weingarten’s work on this subject.

Only the most hubristic of people think this couldn’t happen to them. I am generally against charging these cases unless you can prove the child was forgotten on purpose. These parents suffer so greatly after. It’s harrowing.

Have you read the WaPo article that’s linked in the article?