you're right... they should make unsafe toys for children
Yeah we need to childproof the world.....it's up to parents to do this stuff, I have no problem with labels or guides to how old the child should be for a toy. but I played with the 3.5" GI Joes as a kid, and they had all kinds of parts you could swallow, but we made it through...
I used to work ambulance and saw lots of preventable accidents.
One common problem, even among parents who watch their children, is that there are often children of different ages in the household. The older children will have toys with small parts and sometimes the little parts end up getting swallowed by their baby brother or sister because it got left laying around or dropped on the floor. Stuff can happen under the best of circumstances, but parents should try to be on top of things. We are responsible for our chidren and no government warning will change ignorant parents into intelligent ones. Shutting a company down is stupid. The same parents who would give those magnets to toddlers will find something else equally dangerous. Unless a government bureaucrat inspects every home every day, there will be accidents waiting to happen.
Most children choke on their food. I used to cut hotdogs lengthwise before allowing my children to have them. They stayed on the bun better and posed less of a choking hazard. Hotdogs are one of the worst things for a child to choke on because they fit like a cork in the throat. Balloons are also a big danger. Is Obama shutting the hotdog and balloon companies down? Children who are allowed to run around while eating are more likely to choke. Amazing how many parents don't insist that the children sit at the table or in a high chair.
Government can't stop every accident. Under the best of circumstances, things will happen. When it comes to ignorant parents, nothing will work because the world is a dangerous place.
If parents have no common sense, the child won't be safe. But, hey, let's put more people out of work because parents don't bother to read labels and ensure their child has age-appropriate toys.
