Leaving kids unattended in RV all day?
There's a trailer next to us with what seems to be a single parent (female) and 2 kids, boy 9 and girl 7. She is out all day (at work?) and leaves the kids at their trailer alone all day. According ...
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Naio wrote:toedtoes wrote:
Nowadays, there is no such thing as "an accident" - someone must always be to blame.
I don't think that is true IRL. It just seems like it because, in the rare cases that blame does get thrown around, news and talk shows make a huge deal about it.
But IRL, I think people accept bad luck all the time.
That was my point. The risk hasn't necessarily increased, but the public opinion against the parents has changed. When I was a kid and a child got hurt while staying home alone, the public comment was "oh how horrible" - now the public comment is "where were the parents? Why wasn't someone watching the kid?"
It's not the risk factor that has changed, it's the level of acceptability to take on the risk that's changed.
