I tend to blame the incidents more on the speed of life we are forced to live every day. Time is killing our children. This new kind of murderer takes children out of the equation while it slowly and carefully takes over parents' lives. Children get mislaid. Too often the innocents become victims of unintentional neglect.
Adults often live connected to a paycheck-shaped leash.
Children are hardly cheap, and neither is living in such a fast-paced world. Indiana's parents learned a lesson in a way that I desperately hope other parents won't have to. Life is pressing, but not so pressing that one has to lose a child to realize the value that a minute amount of attention has. Sometimes a child who gets lost in the confusion doesn't have to have a dramatic or tragic end from the inadvertent neglect to be affected by it. Infants and kids need their parents, and they need to have Mommy and Daddy there to hold their hand as they grow up.