Other people's choices about appropriate activities for their children certainly does have an impact on public health and on our pocketbooks. This is from Blue Cross Blue Shield:

According to the American Medical Association (AMA), 12
million student athletes, ages 5 to 22, suffer sports or
recreational injuries each year. They will lose more than 20
million school days a year. One estimate of the medical cost of
childhood sports injuries from 28 different sports through age
14 was in excess of $365 billion in 1997

https://www.bcbsri.com/BCBSRIWeb/pdf/THC/THC_April_2008.pdf


It seems to me that the point is that we are all engaging in a constant risk benefit analysis every time we make any decision. And when those decisions have an impact on our health we all reep the benefits and pay for the risks. And we are never going to have 100% agreement on what is worth the risk!!!!

Kathy Lilleskov RN IBCLC

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