Every year, loving, smart, well meaning parents unintentionally cause their child’s death by forgetting them in the car. It happens more often than you would think – once every ten days, and it happens to good, smart parents – a scientist, professor, paralegal, assistant principal and even a clergy member.
On an 80 degree day, your [...]
Though automobile airbags are wonderful safety devices for adult drivers and passengers, they can injure and even kill children. Airbags deploy with powerful force because they must be available to protect passengers within a fraction of a second of impact.
That quickness that makes them so effective in protecting adults is the precise feature that makes [...]
A sobering article in today’s New York Times tells the story of a baby killed by a button – a button battery that is. Today’s button batteries, those flat disc batteries often used in watches and other small electronic devices, are more powerful than ever and are responsible for a growing number of deaths and [...]
