Pseudo Sane
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Articles about people who thought the way many in this thread do, It can't happen to me.
Hot Car Deaths: Scientists Detail Why Parents Forget Their Children
You'd Never Forget Your Child In The Car, Right? - Parents Magazine
I would never forget my child in a hot car… - - Half Heard in the Stillness
Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a ...
I don't personally know anyone who had left a child but I do know someone who forgot that his dog was in his car and the dog died.
I love how people make blanket statements. This could NEVER happen to me. Guess what? Most everyone this happens to says the exact same shit.
Like people say, "How could someone confess to a crime they didn't commit?" Well, unless you have ever been put in that situation, with trained and experienced police officers waging mental warfare/torture on you, you can't say shit.
I watched a program about the car phenomenon. There is a psychological reason people do this and most of the time it has absolutely nothing to do with "being a bad parent" or "not caring enough." When you have a routine that you do often, your brain goes into autopilot mode. We ALL do it.
Unfortunately, if it has to do with kids and cars, it can result in tragedy. That's why we need something besides "I'll remember because my kids are so precious to me" to remind us the kids are there. The few instances where the parents were just dicks or actually killed the kids are rare, but they get the headlines in our messed up society that needs ratings.
Most of these parents are absolutely devastated. And most thought it could never happen to them, but it did. We're only human, after all.
I liked these posts, but I hate this topic. It makes me want to weep when I think about a kid dying like that. I can't imagine the hell it creates for the parents.
People are fallible, and people who don't think they are fallible are more likely to be fallible.