The details that I have read about here http://fox43.com/2014/10/13/11-month-old-infant-found-alive-trapped-under-fathers-body-for-days/ are chilling. He collapsed and fell on top of his infant daughter. His son went for help a couple of days later, No one knows where the 5 year old was for at least 2 days. The people he went to get help from did not take him seriously.
Within the story we learn that Jason Fields had a lot of medical problems and he was a single parent as the mother of his children was in jail. And he had no support system. Raising children is hard, especially young children. It's a very physical job. And with a baby you get very little sleep. Jason Fields was a ticking time bomb health wise and it seems this problem wasn't an unknown entity. I can't for the life of me figure out why he wasn't checked on frequently and why there was no help for him in his daily tasks. I wouldn't even object if the help was contingent on Jason doing whatever he could do under his own power to improve his health. I am not saying draconian measures, likely that would backfire with quicker deadly results. But, surely someone helping to make sure he would get daily light exercise and help him with food choices. And more importantly household task support. That kind of stress is not good for anyone, male, female, able bodied, rich, poor, disabled, no one should be raising children on their own like that. I would really like to see some concern here for this situation.
The most likely response though is that people will say it's a pity that Jason died. That it's lucky his daughter managed to survive and she has been reunited with her mother and her brother. But, I see yet another situation where the children are going to be raised by a single parent and she will likely have just as much support raising them as Jason Fields did, and that appears to be none.
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