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A woman has been arrested after her baby was rescued from a smoke-filled house.

There were three children alone in the house, aged about 1, about 2, and about 3 (the one-year-old is the "baby" of the headline). Clearly she was wrong to leave them alone in the house.

But oh, by all the gods, I can think of so many ways to talk myself into thinking it might be ok. One year, two years, and three years. Gods.

I wonder have they any other parent, and will that other parent also be charged.

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Date: 2009-09-28 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the0lady.livejournal.com
Actually I don't think that the newspapers are, to their own system, being negligent here. They are reporting what they see as the salient facts: the mother failed to be there at all times with her children. Bad mothering (or the appearance of bad mothering) is news. Bad fathering is dog bites man.

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