Posted On: July 13, 2006, 3:15 pm CDT

Posted By: Melanie

Ok so you have the wandering little 5 year old trotting through the neighborhood alone. Here comes the big bad unfenced attractive nuisance kiddie pool. Lucky for them they managed to dodge the cars on the road, rot wielders and pit bulls also wandering, pedophiles, clotheslines, ditches, drain pipes, and pond or lake, before they found that pool. Isn't this much like the closing the barn door after the horse gets out. You just cannot remove every potentional risk in life by legislating it. Maybe instead of handing out condoms we could teach kids to not have sex, maybe instead of giving drug addicts clean needles, we could help get them off the drugs. Our society has become enablers. Look how well the public assistance system works. I just love a third of my paycheck going to help others enlarge their families. People need to be responsible for themselves and their actions and know that those actions have consequences, some tragic. Heres a novel thought, how about better childcare training in high school. Let's take some lessons from our grandparents. We all managed to survive without the car seats, perfectly spaced crib bars, triple reinforced strollers. Let's get back to making parenting a treasured privilege and not a test to see how stupid you are.