Parenting

I'm sure you've heard the story of the mom who ran in to the store for five minutes, left her child in the car, someone video taped it, sent it to the police and she was charged with child endangerment.

Here's her story.

And one of her quotes, that I think tells it all from a parent perspective:

Of all the difficult parts of parenting, the hardest for me (and for many people, I think) is not the fatigue or time drain or chaos of family life, but the inability to ensure that nothing terrible will ever happen to my children. This desire to prevent suffering in one’s kids is stronger than the desire to breathe, stronger than my most basic human instincts. And yet, no matter how strong the desire, none of us can do it. We just can’t.

It's a long article, but well worth the read.