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What do you think of these parents?
- Thread starter Bear44
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I think it's photoshopped.
But, ASSUMING it were real, in a law-school hypothetical way, and ASSUMING that they're no emergency that makes them toss the baby over what looks like at least a 20-foot fall over rocky ground,
here's my answer:
This is an ACT of unfit parenting. It is probably a crime in most jurisdictions. Intentionally exposing another person to an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily injury. And while parents can give consent to expose their children to certain risks (refusing vaccinations, or letting a child go horseback riding or roller-skating at a park that has a bowl with ramps and jumps to catch air), even those risks have to be reasonable choices based on risk-benefit calculations. Tossing your kid across a chasm just so you can have your baby with you while rock climbing or hiking isn't reasonable by any thinking person.
Does this mean the parents are unfit and the kid should be taken by DFCS and placed in foster care?
No.
But it's both a crime and a dangerous act, so the parents could be prosecuted and ordered to go to parenting classes as a condition of probation.
I think it's photoshopped.
But, ASSUMING it were real, in a law-school hypothetical way, and ASSUMING that they're no emergency that makes them toss the baby over what looks like at least a 20-foot fall over rocky ground,
here's my answer:
This is an ACT of unfit parenting. It is probably a crime in most jurisdictions. Intentionally exposing another person to an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily injury. And while parents can give consent to expose their children to certain risks (refusing vaccinations, or letting a child go horseback riding or roller-skating at a park that has a bowl with ramps and jumps to catch air), even those risks have to be reasonable choices based on risk-benefit calculations. Tossing your kid across a chasm just so you can have your baby with you while rock climbing or hiking isn't reasonable by any thinking person.
Does this mean the parents are unfit and the kid should be taken by DFCS and placed in foster care?
No.
But it's both a crime and a dangerous act, so the parents could be prosecuted and ordered to go to parenting classes as a condition of probation.
I think this is acceptable under the right circumstances, but in my life, the roles would be reversed.
It was used in a Patagonia catalog.
