Soccer Dad

You need a license to drive but not to have children

Two recent cases that I've associated.
A woman pushes her four year old out of the car:

Virginia State Police said Miss Green, of Newport News, Va., left her 4-year-old son on the side of the Beltway near Falls Church at about 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Police said that as the boy tried to get back into the 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer, his mother bumped him with the car and knocked him down as she drove away, leading to the hit-and-run charge.
A driver who asked not to be identified found the boy on the interstate near the Lee Highway overpass and told WJLA-TV (Channel 7) that the toddler jumped into her husband's arms.
"I said, 'Why are you out here?' And he said, 'My mommy left me. She was angry and she pushed me out of the car,' " the woman said.

A woman leaves her child in the car:

Brenda Johanna Oliva, 21, of new Carrollton was being held in lieu of $50,000 bond Tuesday after being charged with reckless endangerment and other crimes, said Prince George's County State's Attorney Glenn Ivey. Oliva can also be released from jail if she agrees to supervision by pretrial services officers, Ivey said.

The girl, whose name was not released, was found Sunday morning by a neighbor near 42nd Avenue and East-West Highway, Hyattsville police said. He saw the girl in the car when he left his home Sunday morning and called police after he saw her again when he returned about two hours later.

I'd say that the second case is not as bad as the first, in that it might well have been an mistake. A reckless mistake. But it didn't have the viciousness of the first case.

In both cases it's worth noting that the women had their children when they were 18 and there's no indication if there's a father involved.