Ok well...How about this. Being sent to jail does worse damage on the kids childhood memories and lifestyle than anything. Before using your "better judgment," think of the repercussions of sending a loving parent to jail. Cruel and unfair punishment to teach a mother a lesson makes no logic of this circumstance. Reality is subjective. Either the law should tell her to never again let her child go that far from home so that she can at that point understand and respect the law even if its fucking stupid. Jail time is retarded. No loving mother deserves that. Plus now the child has no mother and society gets to tell the kid he has a bad mom. Mental abuse is what I call this. The kid gets to suffer now by poor judgment.