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Originally Posted by lauzjp
a 15 year old can get the pill and have a baby, but a 14 year old can't have the brain capacity to know when to stop using a sun bed?  |
only if the medical practitioner ( note that a real person not an unatended medical robot ) decides they are capable of understanding what they are doing
and 12 year olds have had babies but i doubt you would say they were old enough to have one
the law in this country says those under 18 cant normaly enter a contract unless normaly a court or in some cases a competant person decides they are capable of knowing what they are doing ( again real people )
unattended tanning saloons in my view ( and a bet a court would hold the same one ) will have no defense against a claim for damages for an under 18 child wo is injuered and i can see a posibilty of even criminal charges for reckless endangerment
could even be a child protection problem for them as if a 14 year old can get in there i cant see what would stop even younger children some of whom would be quite capable of operateing this sort of equipement.
i personaly see no diference here to say if some one left a kitchen open to use at a charge with all the ineherent dangers with nothing to stop kids using it !
i am all for personal responsibilty and teaching it to kids but that doesnt involve leaving them alone with dangerous equipement
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Originally Posted by Julian
My highlighted part of your post is the bit I was aiming at Stuart.
Parents of children should know where their children are and what they are doing. Quite clearly her mother didn't or I'm sure she would have given her suitable advice (YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE THEM!! )  |
parent may have know roughly where she was but at 14 i would not expect my child who say had told me she was going to town with friends to tell me every shop she was going in
what i would expect is for the shops in town to be relatively safe and say for instance have things in place to say stop her playing in the kitchen area with hot things that could burn her !
i personally would be against her using sunbeds but some are not but even those i would expect that the use of them would be seen to be safe by some real person during the time they let a hild be out with out them.