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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everything in life involves risk, and I agree that the risk here was very small.  But leaving your children alone while you're having dinner 4 blocks away is a completely UNNECESSARY risk.  You don't put your pleasure before the welfare of your small children.  There were a dozen better solutions to the situation that would not have left the children exposed to a potentially dangerous or frightening situation.  [/quote]

I'm the poster who is, I don't know I wouldn't call it defending them but don't think the kids were in danger. I read it was ONE block away. My opinion would actually change if it was four blocks away. I was thinking like, this is a hotel and the restaurant is on the corner, like .1 miles away. Not multiple city blocks. [/quote]

One block. Plus a large hotel lobby, a ride (or walk up stairs) who knows how many floors. Down corridors. This isn't a one-minute stroll away or even a five-minute stroll. And do you have any idea how long walking along "one block" of sidewalk in Manhattan can take, depending on where you are?

You also ignore the fact that in a hotel, many people can easily access rooms. Staff and anyone to whom staff gives a key, or who takes advantage of staff just being careless.

But those of you trying to defend being out of the building while an infant and toddler are alone in a room just won't be convinced this is a terrible idea no matter how much the rest of us explain this to you.

Oh, and what is the magical reason for "four blocks" being your tipping point to think this is wrong? Why not two or three blocks? You're just blathering to defend the idea that it's fine to leave young children in a strange place. And please, don't try to say, "The parents could call the hotel and ask someone to check on the kids if the camera showed a problem." Sure they could! And that would out the parents as having left the kids there, because any decent hotel is likely to tell the cops, or at a minimum, staff will talk about this and let it get around. With people of some public profile like this couple, they wouldn't have phoned the hotel -- they'd know it would look terrible and would get out.

You also missed that the mother told her relatives to go to the hotel and get the kids [i]and the hotel would not admit them to the room[/i]. The hotel was in the right there, too. No way to know that these strangers turning up were actually who they claimed they were.

But you just go on, defending the decision to leave kids in a building where no one knows they're there except adults who are much more than a one-minute walk away. The whole "you can't live life in a bubble! You can't worry about what might not happen!" crowd can call the rest of us paranoid blah blah. But it only takes one time. Only one, and there's no going back or fixing things beause you just HAD to...go out to a restaurant. [/quote]

So well said. I cannot believe anyone is defending this decision that is illegal, irresponsible, and such callous parenting. Wow.[/quote]

+1 I'm truly appalled at the indifference to children's safety...for a meal out. What are these people thinking?![/quote]

If this were a black working woman who left her kids to go get groceries after working a 12 hour shift, people would be all over her. [/quote]

I'm the pp people are mad at for again, not defending them but not thinking this is awful and I absolutely would not be all over her. I think we hold parents to absurd standards in the name of removing every possible risk that makes life impossible for people. And that [b]we should be generally kinder and more understanding of people who are really trying their best[/b].[/quote]
No one is “trying their best” by leaving their children alone in a hotel while they are a block away eating dinner. That is simply not giving a f*ck. Plain and simple.[/quote]

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