The sad tale of the couple that have been charged with child neglect and endangering their child after their twins toddled off and one of them got into a pond and drowned. The parents were charged because they failed to take the steps even though they knew their children had previously gotten out of a window.
My heart goes out to the whole town. it’s got to be devastating, especially for couples who cannot conceive and are desperately wanting a child and they they see this in the news- that’s got to just kill them, it’s heartbreaking… You have to be very careful when you choose to have a child. I hope people would really think twice about it. I’m a big fan of what Margaret Mead said, “every child should be a wanted child”. It is an enormous responsibility. Even in the best of situations, the most stressful time for a young couple is when they are raising young children. The little boy was around two (age), and oddly enough most of the kids in neglect cases are under the age of four because parents just get run down chasing them around. It is hard, it is very hard, yet it has to be done. It is unconscionable that this kid was crawling out of that window and they didn’t childproof it.
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