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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm sure it's a misunderstanding. The parents seem like outstanding, highly educated professionals. There must be a simple explanation. Maybe they expected to take their kids into the wine tasting and were told they couldnt. So what do do? Maybe one parent checked on them every few minutes and kids were probably asleep.[/quote]

I truly, truly hope you do not have children.  Your level of naivete and ignorance is scary.  You have no basis for assumign they are outstanding parents.  Perhaps highly educated professionals, but other than one comment from a neighbor that they seemed like wonderful parents, what do you based this assumption on?  That they were white and rich?  First, outstanding parents do not take two 2-year old children to a wine tasting at an upscale restaurant which will probably last 2.5-3 hours.  Second, if they somehow had an emergency and they had to, once told they couldn't being them in, they should have made alternate plans that did not leave them unattended in a below freezing car for said 2.5-3 hours.

Are you one of those people who deny climate change because the science doesn't add up to you?  Even a car with the inside at about 65-70 F will cool down rather rapidly in 28 F external temperature.  Within a half hour, the car interior is likely to be below 40 F.  While it doesn't seem cold to you standing around or walking around or bouncing around in the air because heat transfers through air/gas the slowest.  Heat will transfer through solids medium and liquids the fastest.  Unlike you standing around in the cold, these children were strapped into car seats, so that their body heat would leave faster than if they were standing in the air.  Likewise, whether they had coats on or not, the body heat would travel through their pants into the materials of the car seat faster than through the air.  If you are sitting on a car seat in an unheated car, your heat will escape through your legs and gluteus maximum into the car seat fastest.  Same with the kids.  Additionally, if they had no hats or took them off (my kids don't leave hats on very long when idle) then there would be more body heat loss.  Heat leaves the body fastest through the feet and head.  If they were not strapped in they could move around to generate body heat, but they were strapped into car seats.  All it takes is lowering the body temperature about 3F for hypothermia to set in.  That can easily happen in 2-3 hours.  You're a moron if you think this situation is no big deal.  Yes, if they were there for 15-30 minutes, you might have a case (I wouldn't agree, but would have less scientific objection).  But if you don't even know these basic facts and still try to give them a pass, then you are tragically bad parenting material and shoudl not be left alone with children under 5.

[quote=Anonymous]What about a single mom who is with her kids waiting for the bus in 20 degree cold with her kid?  And the bus doesn't come for half an hour?  And then getting off the bus and having to walk 20 mins home to their apartment in the freezing cold?  The kids in question were in a locked car. [/quote]

See my last paragraph above.  You too also fail parenting class.[/quote]

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