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Is Banning Everything Really The Answer?
This is a really tragic story and very sad that a little girl's life has been lost, but are they right to start a campaign against banning cords on blinds? As parents we all have a responsibility to make our homes safe and these kind of accidents are hardly new. Is this just a way to assign responsibility elsewhere by suggesting the blinds are inherently dangerous?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's a strange facet of UK political culture that banning things is seen as the solution to almost very problem. I find it extremely frustrating that people are so suspicious of big governments, yet are quite happy to jump on the next tabloid-led bandwagon for banning something or another because of its incidental involvement in some horrific case or another.
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Many cordless blinds exist
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I understand that the parents are understandably upset, but surely a campaign to have all corded blinds labelled as "not safe in house with children" would be more sensible. Actually, a campaign to encourage parents to "risk assess" their homes would be even better, but wouldn't serve to be able to give these parents someone to blame for what was a tragic accident.
Why not ban roads? http:// makingt helink. net/chi ld-deat hs-road -traffi c-accid ents
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Life is not without risk. We all use cars or cross the road everyday, but children die or every year doing just that. There are many dangers in a house for a young child. There have been several deaths through televisions falling on them, I don't suppose these parents are trying to ban tellys.
I expect campaigning for a ban helps to recover from their tragedy and ease some of the guilt they undoubtedly feel for their loss.
I expect campaigning for a ban helps to recover from their tragedy and ease some of the guilt they undoubtedly feel for their loss.
Like you say, "As parents we all have a responsibility to make our homes safe and these kind of accidents are hardly new".
.... where do we draw the line ?? Almost everything in the house is a potential hazard for children.
What do we ban next ..... stairs, kettles, irons, any appliance with a cord on it, doors, any object small enough to fit in a child's mouth ....... ban them all ..... BAN THEM ALL I say :P
.... where do we draw the line ?? Almost everything in the house is a potential hazard for children.
What do we ban next ..... stairs, kettles, irons, any appliance with a cord on it, doors, any object small enough to fit in a child's mouth ....... ban them all ..... BAN THEM ALL I say :P
Not sure how blinds would work if we didn't have cords to operate them. I am dreadfully sorry for this poor woman who has lost her little girl but perhaps she should have tied the cords up high enough that her child couldn't get to them ?
Simple bit of common sense is what is needed here, not more legislation.
Simple bit of common sense is what is needed here, not more legislation.
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