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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not that it justifies anything, but I am curious if both parents were completely 'on board' with the decision to leave the children in the car. One parent may have been opposed to the idea, but the other parent may have been persuasive and forceful on the decision. I just can't imagine two people completely agreeing to do something so terrible.[/quote]

And I can't imagine agreeing to leave my kids in the car like that, no matter how pesuasive and forceful my husband was.  I think they both had to be 100 percent on board.[/quote]

Exactly. As to how two people both were on-board with a uniquely bad idea, often people with crazy or bizarre or even evil world views seem to attract each other (see all the cases where one spouse is a criminal and another an enabler or they both join in like those Canadian husband/wife serial killers).

This said, I am boggled as to why these parents did not get supervised visitation for an hour a day or something. I am 100% on board with the children being removed from their house until the investigation/trial are concluded, but for children this young to have no contact with their parents - all they know - is not good. And I am not saying this because these parents are yuppies (I actually think that their age/education/income make it worse - they could afford to do something else and should have known better). I am saying this because I think all children should be able to have supervised visits with their parents unless (a) the parent is a violent maniac who is likely to come into a foster home with a knife and lunge or something equally nuts or (b) the kids are old enough to have an opinion and don't want to see their parents.

Actually I wonder if the Judge is more severe with them because they really have no excuse - it was not a financial necessity to go to a wine tasting, they could afford a babysitter, and they are certainly old enough/educated enough to know they are violating the law. [/quote]

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