But I have noticed on several different occasions that along with the cases of parents who have beaten and neglected their own children, you list cases of parents leaving their kids in cars.

It’s horrible. But it’s not intentional. The knee-jerk reaction is always hatred at the parents. It would have to be deliberate, people say. How could anyone leave their kid in the car in the hot sun? And there are some few cases where it is deliberate. I’m not arguing that.

Sometimes, though, it isn’t. The article I’m linking to explains it better than I could. It’s all too possible to go into “autopilot”, and if the child is quiet, to assume that they’ve already been taken care of. Even hypervigilance can only be maintained for so long. The human brain just isn’t designed for it.

It’s an awful way for a child to die. But to be a parent who knows that this is not a nice death and it’s your own fault that your child died that way because of one stupid mistake you made, and there’s nothing you can do to make it right again, and carry that knowledge with you for the rest of your life… I can’t even begin to imagine how hellish that must be. It’s not the same as being an abusive parent – those may shed crocodile tears, sure, but it’s very different.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html

That’s been my point all along. They just got pregnant more times than other people, experienced the stress and hardships that come along with it, and BAM landed a show.

The amazing part about this who saga to me is how much people care what happens with their marriage one way or another. But they do, so the media will play it out until we’ve found something else to latch onto.