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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They deserved to be arrested. Even with w monitor, the biggest concern is a fire. There is no possibility for a baby to escape a fire…[/quote]

But there wasn’t a fire.

It’s not worth it to definitely cause harm to a child (arresting parents, taking custody of the child) in order to prevent an extremely unlikely and improbable event.  
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Ok - you need to understand risk/consequence....

The likelihood of an event occurring goes on the X-axis.  The consequences of that event goes on the Y- axis.   If the grid is a 9 box, you want all the risks you take to be in the middle box, to the left and to the bottom.  This one would be in the upper red box.
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Where would these fit in your model?  The US Fire Administration reports about 15 people die annually in fires in hotels (in most years this does not include any children).  In 2022, 1,129 children were killed in car accidents.  Is taking a child in a car also in the upper red box?  What about gun deaths? If a parent owns a gun, would that be in the upper red box too?[/quote]

Sorry I can explain it to you not understand it for you.  It is a child, probably the only to the family so their risk for that child tobthat is different than an insurer's model, where a few lives of unknown people is no big deal.  When we do this in industry it is tied to cost and factor of safety.  When I do it for my family it's totally different.  My kids are not replaceable, maybe yours are.[/quote]

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