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Thread #101654   Message #2168151
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
10-Oct-07 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Child neglect and the law
Subject: RE: BS: Child neglect and the law
No insult intended, which should mean no insult received, Black Hawk. But I know from quite a lot of life experience that people do often deceive themselves about this kind of thing. Even if we can be sure about ourselves, we've no way of being as sure about other people who say they are sure.

Whether it's a matter of driving a car or looking after children, human beings do silly things sometimes, and most times they get away with it, and sometimes they don't, and the result can be terrible. But when they get away with it they are likely to forget all about it.
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Wesley, you must have been speedreading the previous posts Liz made. As she has indicated, the point is there are laws about endangering children, but they don't specifically state what exactly counts as endangering children. They leave that to the courts to decide on an individual basis when a prosecution is made - and leaving young children alone would be the kind of thing that courts would be liable to be deciding did involve endangering children.