Hearing that your child or your teen inflicted harm on someone else is heart-wrenching. No parent would want to receive a call from the school or from another parent and learn that their child has been causing pain on other kids. In the United States, one in seven kids in grades K through 12 is either a bully or has been bullied in school. Six out of 10 teenagers express that they witness bullying in school at least once a day. One out of 10 students who dropped.
We all care for safety, but when it comes to the safety of children, it’s a different story – rules are stricter and liabilities are more elaborate. Children’s products are considered the most unique products on the market and more difficult to insure. There were 62,300 recorded injuries treated in the emergency department of hospitals in 2016 that were associated with the use of nursery products. Patients were younger than five. Seventy percent of these recorded injuries were related with the use of high chairs, strollers or carriages,.
Motor vehicle injuries remain to be a leading cause of death among children in the United States. In 2015, 663 children ages 12 years and younger died as passengers in motor vehicle crashes. A study found that in a span of a year, more than 600,000 children ages 0-12 rode in vehicles without the use of a child safety seat, booster seat, or a seat belt. Aside from this, child restraint systems are often misused in such a way that their effectiveness is reduced. Below are a few.