Childhood: Riskier lives recommended

The report found parents are more worried about their children's safety than ever before, their concerns fuelled by media coverage of child abduction cases and gang violence. It said the Government is trying to manage all risk through regulation, which is unfeasible and unwise, and that children are more likely to contract a serious illness than be abducted or injured in a traffic accident. The study, Risk and Childhood, published last week by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce...