Baby in the Back Seat

Bill and I had a discussion about forgotten children left in the back seat of the family car to die. It seems to happen more and more. The agony of the parents is difficult to bear and it makes me cringe when I hear of it on the news. So why does this keep on happening? Well, Bill has a tendency to think in black and white, and in this instance, he hit the nail right on the head. In the old days, your child was always in the front seat, next to you. Even if they fall asleep and are quiet, it’s hard to ignore them since you have a visual cue that they are indeed  in the car with you. Now, with the baby being in the back seat because of new laws, this changes things. This new law has made some parents into criminals. So which is worse? A dead baby, or having to live with the fact that you killed your own child? Sometimes laws create more problems where they didn’t exist before. I think before this happens again, someone needs to stop this. Maybe when you buy a car seat, there should be some kind of alarm? Maybe that alarm should be an ap on your phone? Maybe tie a string to your finger and to the baby? Come on folks, can you give me a hand here? What works?  How can this be stopped?!!