Poor People Run Over Their Kids

[Winston001]

Apparently Starship Hospital have done a 4 year study on children who are run over. The vast majority are at home and run over in the driveway by a family member. Furthermore, something like 3/4 of these unfortunate children live in poor neighbourhods.

Now, being a reactionary I immediately thought " That's because their parents aren't looking after them properly."

But oh no - silly me. The sociologists are saying it is because they are poor that the kids get run over. In fact it's all the fault of the middle class because we have nice safe play areas away from the driveway for our own children. We need to be building fences around poor people's driveways and in fact pay for them to have better homes with nice large play areas.

Well I was a bit astonished about this. It is a terrible tragedy whenever a child is run over - anywhere. Having children myself I try not to speed in suburban streets and drive slowly into and out of driveways. There is always a chance a child will have moved behind the vehicle but hopefully I'll hear/feel any hit.

I suspect the so-called poor people simply don't keep a proper lookout for their kids. Certainly even with care accidents do happen but if that was the only answer then they'd be spread across all of society.

[Colapop]

It's tough to think of everything when there is so much on your mind. If you're in that situation you thinking about getting food on the table, keeping a roof over your head, the list could go on and on. I'm just thankful we've got our two this far. Now they're teens - oh great!!

[Madness]

There's plenty of state housing areas 'round here with heaps of cars parked all over the front lawns of houses. Some even have wheels!!!

This study sounds like a waste of money to me, I mean how are you going to effect any change as a result of it's findings?? TV ads to raise awareness?? Tui moment.

[SwanTiger]

I find the fact they raised a point of statistical reason for children of "poor families" being the leading victims of these types of accidents utterly fucking stupid.

In summary. I hate these shitty reports. They are inaccurate.

[scumdog]

Next thing they will want 'approved' fences down each side of the drive-way, and if you don't own a drive-way wll heaven help you....

Where is the 'cotton-wool wrapping' going to end??

Corks on the end of all gorse prickles??

[Gremlin]

Where is the 'cotton-wool wrapping' going to end??

do not visit building sites... we had osh a week or two ago...

one site had to put a low temp fence of the orange net stuff around it...

why?? because dumb parents feel they don't have to supervise their little darlings around dangerous stuff... good ol darwin and gene deletion...

crazy... idiot proofing is just that... for idiots

[Pathos]

These poor parents can't afford to get their kids a ps2 so they're getting some exercise instead until... :/

[Pixie]

do not visit building sites... we had osh a week or two ago...

one site had to put a low temp fence of the orange net stuff around it...

why?? because dumb parents feel they don't have to supervise their little darlings around dangerous stuff... good ol darwin and gene deletion...

crazy... idiot proofing is just that... for idiots

Why not let natural selection take it's course?

[Gremlin]

Why not let natural selection take it's course?

We tried... OSH was none too impressed...

we got the bollocks for the odd things, but one contractor got done real good on some other job. Safety rails for the upper roof on a 2 story, and they weren't using harnesses... OSH driving past, oopsy daisy

My parents would never have been careless enough to let me run around when on a building site. Modern parents should have the same intelligence. But no, its somebody else's problem that our kid died (the one that got my goat was the one under a stack of gib sheets that got crushed... wonder where the parents were)

[SimJen]

Drive around some of these poor areas....we have a few in Hamilton, and you usually see a couple of little kids 2-4 years old, wandering around near the road often with no shoes and sometimes unclothed. The parents are usually nowhere to be seen as they
a: either shoot up inside
b: getting drunk
c: at the casino and little billy (whos 5) is babysitting
d: justs don't give a shit until their kid is taken from them

These people don't need money, they need brains and common sense.

It also doesn't seem to be linked to one race either......

[T.I.E]

i think these days you need a licence to have children, pass some tests the do interview etc.
kinda like a gun licence.

[scumdog]

i think these days you need a licence to have children, pass some tests the do interview etc.
kinda like a gun licence.

Yep, you need a licence to have a gun, to fly, to ride etc so it's about time there was a rquirement to have a licence to breed.

Sheeit! If they had a test for the last licence a shit-load of people would never pass it..might improve the gene pool though

[ajturbo]

you mean i'm NOT SUPPOSE to aim for mud boy when i get in the van????

[phantom]

Statistics are ( or can be) a crock of shit, but just across from us is a cul de sac of mainly low cost housing, tenanted in the main by presumably lower income people. Don't get me wrong - I've been in that situation myself. It scares the living daylights out of me to see kids playing on the road, riding their pushbikes without helmets etc sometimes into the early evening and the only warning they get of someone driving into their play area is the sound of some $1000 special with a pop off valve and a drain pipe exhaust coming around the corner. I'm trying not to sound like a curmudgeon but jeeze Wayne

[bobsmith]

I've seen many middle class homes, and even homes of people with too much fucking money......

I have NEVER seen one of those homes with fence around their driveway...

Oh and as for statistics, see below at my signature...