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HOME SAFETY Parents take precautions to childproof their homes, but a study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that they often ignore one major safety issue: keeping guns away from their kids. Among gun owners with children under age seven at home, 57% said they do not keep the firearms in a locked compartment, and 36% admitted that they keep their guns loaded...
...When we disembarked in Florida, my grandmother took one look at my parents? haggard faces and swept my brother and me off to spoil us rotten, while my grandfather, chuckling, led my parents off to find a dark, quiet, childproof room. It?s very possible that my brother and I were holy terrors - although my sense is that we were actually pretty well behaved. No, it was mostly the inherent problem of long-distance train travel for people other than kids or crazy romantics: too slow, confining and expensive compared with the alternatives. My parents still blanch visibly whenever...
...currently traveling to Canada to buy their medication? How many of your elderly relatives are currently traveling to Florida to buy their medication but are so senile that they think they are traveling to Canada? If your elderly relatives had prescription drug coverage, how many could actually open the childproof caps on their prescription drugs...
...kids who spend their early months behind bars, though some initial research suggests that babies don't develop as well there because they don't get the kind of attention and stimulation they need. There are also concerns about children's safety in prisons, which are often not adequately childproof, and about the availability of adequate medical care. Then there are the potential long-term psychological effects. "Our concern is that kids will think prison is normal," says Bobbi Costa, executive director of Families and Friends of Violent Crime Victims in Washington State. "We have to be concerned...
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