Originally Posted by
knownothing
GU: wrong Hospitals can initiate an investigation of child abuse which stays on the parent's record even if it is found negative. But with an injured child, it is becoming more common for the investigator to say "yes". Your reply of kids getting hurt going to the bathroom is off. The MOST common injury on airplanes is hot coffee on lap children with burns requiring grafting. The second most is flying kids It is impossible to hold a kid (laws of physic) if the plane drops because of an air pocket. I doubt your comment of Senior FA who have not seen a lap child injured. It is why the "association of flight attendants have pushed for no lap kids (overwhelmingly)
Hospitals can't charge anything but money. For legal charges about child abuse, hospitals can do no more than random people off the street can do -- to try to whip up a frenzy and prompt an investigation by authorities with applicable statutory authority to make legal charges. Can you provide even one example of a conviction for child abuse in the US for U2 children going on trips as lap children on planes instead of in their own seat? Unless and until anyone provides even one such documented example of such incident, the charge of "child abuse" for U2 children traveling as lap children on planes is going to continue to be recognizable as an extreme and poorly substantiated claim.
Surely you remember discussions posted under the
BeatCal handle in this thread:
To Car Seat or Not To Car Seat, That is the Question...[Merged Threads]
Your choice of words -- about physics, air pockets and charges -- in this discussion are such that I recognized it from the start. Best to at least merge this thread into that one.
