Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Cot Death
Civil cot deaths review urged
You don't have to be a parent to feel the terrible injustice that seems to have been done to the thousands of parents who have lost children to cot death and then been accused and sometimes convicted of murder. Many have also had other children taken into care.
The whole thing is a nightmare.
I remember when my kids were tiny, getting up in the night to check they were still breathing - they seem to do that thing on purpose where they don't appear to breath for about a minute - just to make you feel bad about getting annoyed when they won't go to sleep - before happily snoring on.
Nothing is going to console the parents who have lost babies, but it would be a start if the ones who have had children taken into care, as a result of authorities suspecting them of being in danger, have their children returned as soon as possible.
Civil cot deaths review urged
You don't have to be a parent to feel the terrible injustice that seems to have been done to the thousands of parents who have lost children to cot death and then been accused and sometimes convicted of murder. Many have also had other children taken into care.
The whole thing is a nightmare.
I remember when my kids were tiny, getting up in the night to check they were still breathing - they seem to do that thing on purpose where they don't appear to breath for about a minute - just to make you feel bad about getting annoyed when they won't go to sleep - before happily snoring on.
Nothing is going to console the parents who have lost babies, but it would be a start if the ones who have had children taken into care, as a result of authorities suspecting them of being in danger, have their children returned as soon as possible.
