I don't care if you have a baby
You don't get freebies to afk and ruin games. If you KNOW you have something which could pull you away from the game at literally any second, don't queue up. Play something single player until you are totally free.
If you have to afk until everyone else is level 11 while you are level 1 you deserve afk consequences.
There are totally random things that happen and people can't prevent that so ya sometimes someone goes afk and that's just life. However when you KNOW you are responsible for stuff (on call for work, pizza coming, need to leave for class, cooking stuff, TAKING CARE OF A BABY) it's very obvious the chance of you needing to afk is super high and just play something else where you can get up and go