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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And of course no mention of dad...[/quote]

She's 55. Dad might be dead. Or 5 years into 30 year old Wife #2. Or he's 59 and afraid to take vacation because the staff in his office are irresponsible. Or she's a single mom by choice who can afford a week-long beach rental --and with two ES age kids and two dogs, she deserves 45 min alone.[/quote]

So what she can afford to vacation alone? What does that have to do with how much sense she has? Clearly not much - she left her two young children home alone in a vacation rental.  What if Laquisha (in the projects) or Brandy (in a trailer park) had done this? Does your opinion change?

This was STUPID no matter who did it.  Kids are 24/7. Not just when you feel like it. She should have gotten that 45 minutes through a babysitter or when they went to bed.[/quote]

8/9 year old kids generally do not need to be watched like hawks.  And it actually doesn't sound as if they were doing anything wrong.  Their dogs got out and they chased them to try to get them back while Mom was down the street picking up dinner.

I don't think that we know enough about the circumstances - how the dogs got out, the maturity of the kids, if the kids were left inside the house or if they were running around outside, where the mom went and how long she expected to be gone - to really know if this was particularly careless on this mother's part or not.[/quote]

There's quite a wide spectrum between watching children like hawks and not leaving them alone in an unfamiliar vacation rental for almost an hour while mom is five miles down the road.

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We don't know how long they had been staying at that rental house or if they had ever stayed there before.  The mom may have felt that she knew the house, the area, her kids well enough that she could run out for a little bit.  5 miles is within walking distance to me.  Meaning, if the car broke down or a road got closed I could get back to my kids on foot within a reasonable amount of time.  The mom left the house during daylight and I'll bet that she expected to get back before dark but somehow her 15 minute trip took longer than expected.

Of course, if she just left w/o being clear on where the kids were and didn't tell them where she was going and they managed to let the dogs out while they were running in/out of the house/yard looking for her....that would be careless on the mom's part.

Even so, I would think that 99% of the time there would not have been an issue.  [/quote]

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