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Originally Posted by Lou_Dorchen
Allowing children to be taken away by the Government is very serious. My parents (and others too of my generation) would be vilified as abusers by today's standards.
I rode around in the beds of pickups. I didn't wear a helmet or pads when I rode my bicycle and skateboard. I played pickup sports with other kids without pads and safety equipment. My parents let me play dodge ball. I turned out just fine. Would you consider my parents abusive? Should I have been taken from my parents because they didn't protect me?
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Dude, your parents and any parent raising us 40-somethings didn't know any better back then. Hell, I used to sit on my dad's lap and steer the car in the city, @ 5 years old! He was drinking a beer and having a smoke at the same time! Nobody really calculated all those risks, as they do today.
With the advent of computer models and a greater ability to crunch numbers into something measurable, we now know how great a risk that behavior was. Do you have kids of your own? Do you lead by example?
If you don't, I guess you can wave your flag and do whatever you want, damn all consequences. If you do have kids, then you're an irresponsible parent if you don't wear your seatbelt to lead by example.
I turned out alive and well, too. That doesn't mean I need to tempt the odds to work against me. It isn't my driving I worry about; it's guys like my employee that thought, "It'll never happen to me."