>>I sometimes wonder how my generation managed to make it to adulthood without all the rules and regs.
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>Just keep in mind that we didn't all make it to adulthood. That's the perspective you need whether you're talking about bike helmets, child car seats or child labor laws.
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>Kids have always died in childhood, some from things we can't prevent, and some from things we can. As a society, we decide what our tolerance is for the latter.
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>Tamar

We, as a society, have no effect on the whacky laws enacted by kooky do gooder legislators...