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MZ on
I feel like the title of the Lil Sugar article was misleading, because they were talking about co-sleeping deaths due to the parent being intoxicated. I think if a parent is abusing drugs or alcohol and kills their child as a result, they should be charged. It doesn’t matter how the child died, whether it was co-sleeping or in a car accident…the parent was neglectful in a big way.
That said, I don’t think parents who are trying to practice responsible co-sleeping (I’m not going to debate whether co-sleeing is good or bad, safe or unsafe; I just use the term responsible from how Dr. Sears described the proper way to do it) should be prosecuted if their child should die from it. Co-sleeping isn’t illegal, but using illegal drugs and child neglect are.
Alex on
On the baby name thing, I would definitely tell a friend they were not choosing a unique name. The names that site used as examples are all beautiful and would be great names, but if a parent was using them to be original, they deserve to know they are being anything but. It’s not the same as, pardon the phrase, peeing all over their choice, it’s clueing them in. If they are desperate to be original, and this was the motive for the choice, they have a right, I believe, to know that their name choice is trendy.
sdfsd on
When parents roll over onto their children while sleeping and kill them they should be charged with neglect. It doesn’t matter if alcohol or drugs are involved. Even when sober, that is neglect. Parents have been warned about this enough. If you choose to co-sleep with your child, you ought to be doing it at your own risk.
Lorus on
MZ – I completely agree with everything you’ve said.
sdfsd – So in your mind EVERY single parent who loses a child in a car crash when their child wasn’t properly restrained should be prosecuted? 9 out of 10 car seats aren’t used/installed properly and a lot of times parents don’t car. I believe it’s advertised more than the safety issues regarding co-sleeping. Car crashes are the #1 killer of children so we should send all those dead children’s parents to jail?
finais on
Exactly, Lorus! I co-sleep, and I KNOW I am not going to roll on top of my daughter. I am a very light sleeper and always have been. Co-sleeping parents aren’t foolish or ignorant. Just because you don’t do it, doesn’t make it wrong. It happens to be the only way my daughter will sleep. And frankly, I don’t want to be up all night, I’ve tried that and it only results in an exhausted and depressed mom.
CelebBabyLover on
If a friend of mine was pregnant and shared her baby name with me and it was a trendy name, I’d probably tell her. That way she could pick another name if she wanted to. However, if the baby had already been born, I absolutly would not tell her. What people name their children is their business!
CelebBabyLover on
Lorus- I agree one-hundred percent!
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