Alvarado, I take care of children who are hurt on farms and ranches and job sites, and almost none of the parents I meet are bad people.

“What goes wrong is almost always the same thing.

An adult looks at a hurt child and decides to wait and see.

And waiting and seeing feels responsible.

It feels like not overreacting, which people are more afraid of than you would believe.

“Then an hour passes, and now there is a second decision, and the second decision has the first one inside it.

Because to call at six is to admit you should have called at five.