DonaldFrump

I warned my conservative friends of this under Bush. I warned my liberal friends of this under Obama. Neither cared so long as their guy was in power, and both whined about every expansion of power when the other guy was in office. For the majority, no lessons will be learned.

Indeed. Among the many reasons life-expectancy was worse back then, children were less likely to survive to adulthood. Among "Great Grandpa's" 13 siblings growing up on the farm, the one who drowned unsupervised at the ol' swimmin' hole six miles from home is just another statistic next to the couple who died as infants from disease.

Everyone's grandparents who survived just fine are exactly that: just fine, because they survived.

Nowadays, with parents having fewer children on average and with tragic childhood accidents being more exceptional, I would only expect modern parenting to favor greater restrictions.