-Caveat Lector-
http://www.nypostonline.com/editorial/14952.htm
MAYBE THEY SHOULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL
No wonder conservatives refer to the federal
government as "the nanny state."
The Consumer Product Safety Commission
stepped in this week to issue a warning about
children under the age of two sleeping in their
parents' beds.
It did so based on one survey - one survey -
that attributed 515 baby deaths over a
seven-year period to sleeping in their parents'
bed.
The first question this raises is: Why is the
Consumer Product Safety Commission of all
agencies conducting this study? Last we
checked, neither parents nor babies fall under
anyone's definition of "product."
There is no indication that a faulty bed or
pillow caused any of these cases of early death.
Instead, it is unquantifiable actions such as
"overlying" or an adult occasionally suffocating
an infant.
The survey attributes 64 baby deaths a year to
sharing the parental bed - out of3.9 million
American babies born each year. And it still
issued its front-page warning despite the fact
that this number is statistically insignificant
from the number of babies in cribs - 50 a year
-who die because they get their heads caught
between the slats.
Now compare these numbers with the hundreds
upon hundreds of millions of babies born for
millennia who have slept close to their parents.
Child safety is vitally important. But it is
nothing short of irresponsible for the federal
government to be terrifying parents based on
the flimsiest of evidence. And it's nothing short
of shocking for the Consumer Product Safety
Commission to be butting in.
Here's something of a radical notion - how
about letting parents decide how best to care for
their babies? Uncle Sam, consider yourself
relieved of this particular baby-sitting duty.
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