Texas leads the nation in child deaths from being left in a hot vehicle.
. Last week, record-high temperatures were recorded across the state, including 111 degrees in San Angelo and 109 degrees in Del Rio.
. Since 1990, 150 children have died in Texas from being left in hot cars, more than any other state., joined the Standard with more about the phenomenon and how to prevent it.Forgotten child syndrome – not actually a medical syndrome – is when a parent or caretaker unknowingly and unintentionally loses awareness of a child in a car and forgets the child when they exit the vehicle, Diamond said.
Memory failures are actually very common, Diamond said, from the benign – forgetting to stop at the store on the way home – to the major, like“Most people simply say, ‘you can forget keys, you can forget someone’s name, you can forget all kinds of things, but you never forget a child in a car.’ And so therefore, most people simply will be very critical of anyone that forgets a child in a car,” he said.
Many parents who forget a child are confused by memories of dropping their child off at daycare, even though that didn’t happen, as they arrive at their destination and their brain fills in the void.
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