About 5,000 children under 14 die every year due to accidents, many of them preventable. On the contrary, the kidnapping of toddlers by strangers is extremely rare.

If there is no danger of flight by the mother there is no excuse for an arrest as opposed to a citation or a report to child protection services.

If we are going to start arresting mothers for parenting errors, we will need to hire more police for the tens of thousands “guilty” mothers.