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I'm so glad I don't have kids. I tend to be absent-minded, so I'd be terrified of having this happen to me. Even though I very, very rarely forget anything I've got in the back seat (where I put my laptop bag when I drive to work) it only takes one memory lapse to bring about the unthinkable. I used to be a lot more outraged when I heard about this sort of thing, but then I would read something like this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/08/AR2009030802194.html?nav=hcmodule
I have a very, very hard time putting that female monster in the same category with the guy who walks into work convinced that he's dropped his kid off at day care because he's done it 200 times in a row this year and his working memory fails him. Whoever said that people are harsh and judgmental about these kinds of cases because they think they can convince themselves that it wouldn't happen to them hit the nail exactly on the head.
