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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very common in some countries. In Scandinavia people often leave kids outside in a pram.

I don't see what all the fuss is about. Taking the children away from their parents is cruel and needless.[/quote]

If it's common in Scandinavia, it's bc of the social contract of those countries -- i.e. people walk in and out of stores every day seeing prams of cute babies sleeping; they keep would notice if someone was running off with a baby bc that would be uncommon, so they'd know to call the cops and alert the parents in the store. Here in the U.S. there is no such social contract. People don't look into cars to see if there's a child in there bc no one expects to see one; these kids got lucky that the state dept atty happened to live right there/notice something was wrong/hearing the crying and call the cops. It's just as easy that he could not have noticed and in another hr or two the kids could have succumbed to the cold and gone unconscious or someone could have kidnapped a kid or car jacked the car or whatever.

I'm also assuming that the overall crime rate in the Scandinavian countries is lower than in U.S. esp a big northeastern city like DC. [/quote]

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