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"Billy bob" billybob@bobshome wrote in message
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Its takes one minute for someone to take your child. (yup less then
that
even)

I think there are a lot of situations reported where the child was
unintentionally taken by a car thief. You know, the child was in the
back
seat and the thief didn't know it.

Define "a lot". And what percentage are car jackings (where a parent
was in the car or standing by the car) versus parents wandering away.
From what I've heard on the news, I'd guess one or two a year in the
entire US, and I'd say most of those are car jackings. Note, I'm not
saying you should leave children in cars, I'm just tired of folks fear
mongering about imagined dangers, instead of the obvious ones, like
a child overheating in a parked car.



The car theft thing is on my mind as part of why I do not leave the kids
in
the car, as if I needed too many reasons. For me, it is not so much the
likelihood, which is pathetically small. But *what if?* As I said to my
DH,
who just paled upon thinking about it, the consequences are so
horrifyingly
small that a vanishingly small chance is just not small enough.

That's a good reason for not leaving your child. You acknowledge that it's
vanishingly small, but not small enough. I can certainly see that.

I am with you on making things seem what they are not. I do not see the
value in it. But even if temperature is not a problem, I still would not
leave my kids.

I'm just against the argument of not leaving your kids because "there are
a lot of situation reported where the child was unintentionally taken..."
It's too easy to disprove, there aren't "a lot", so it's not persuasive.