Tosahame comments

You know, it's slighly understandable when this sort of perverse selfish stupidity happens when the parent is, say, 19, and dumb. Doesn't excuse it, but I can see where the potential for thinking a child might survive in a hot car might arise. But this woman is 40, for crying out loud.

You should never judge a person's maturity based on their age. There are some really, really grown-up 16 year-olds in this world and some very, very stupid 60 year-olds. There's no general rule to this.

I also always assumed that people should logically KNOW that leaving a child or pet in a hot car without open windows isn't a good idea (especially since that has happened before), but again... other people sadly don't see things the same way you do.

Well, Japan, if that doesn't give you a wake-up call about gender roles and working lives, I don't know what will.