Our Children's Safety

Our Children’s Safety:
Who should be responsible?

In today’s materialistic society who should be held accountable to make sure that the products that our children use or that we use for them are safe for them. With so many products in the marketplace today that are geared for children who should make sure that these products are safe? Should it be the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) which is “the federal regulatory agency responsible for overseeing the safety of most consumer products in the U.S., including durable baby products, home improvement products (e.g., power tools, lawnmowers, drills, and ladders), and recreation equipment (e.g., scooters, snowmobiles, bicycle helmets, and playground equipment) (Felcher 2003). Should manufactures be held more responsible for the injuries or deaths caused by the use of their products, “even products designed to protect your children can put them at risk,” this includes infant seats, safety gates, pool gear, and protective helmets, (ALERT: Unsafe “Safety” gear for kids 2003). Lastly should the parents watch their children more closely when they are playing toys or using other consumer products? And maybe the answer doesn’t lie completely within one of these areas but possibly a combination of them would help protect out children better.  
Back to the question of how responsible manufacturers should be for the products that they either produce, distribute, or both.   All products are thought up by someone and then there is the task of finding a company to take interest in the product and have the desire to spend the money to manufacture said product, but just how safe are the products that are manufactured for our children. In the consideration of safety issues manufacturers must take into consideration what is defined as foresee ability of injury as defined in the court case of Winnett vs. Winnett,   the definition reads as follows, “a manufacturer is expected to protect against those injuries that are... [continues]

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