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Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!From: Cheri Van Hoover (cherivh@xdcr.com)Thu Jul 28 11:10:33 2005
Anna Meenan, MD wrote: > "safe" for a 9-year-old whose mother is stupid enough to let him hang > out unsupervised at the downtown public library, would probably have to > be a ten-foot chain link fence topped with barbed wire. When I was 4 and 5 years old I lived in a very small town. I was allowed to walk about a half mile across town to the library where I spent many happy unsupervised hours. I learned to write my name so I could get my own library card. That was the only requirement for library card ownership. At the same age I wandered fields, meadows, forests, ponds, and streams unsupervised. Probably unwise and unsafe, but I survived and came away from it with a deep appreciation for nature and a strong sense of independence. A lovely stream flows through our property. Seasonal salmon spawn in the creek, and there are trout year round. In this small rural community, our property has been a traditional fishing place for all the neighborhood children. Various contractors and service industry people have told us their happy memories of fishing on our property and about the kindly old man who used to show them the best places to dig worms. Times have changed. Now we are worried about the liability of having children on our property unsupervised, fishing in the creek. I hate it. I would much rather see those children have the same opportunity that I had to explore the natural world and develop their sense of independence and identity. I also want to be part of a cohesive small town community instead of seeming like a paranoid, selfish outsider. The explanation Joe gave about the legalities of the situation are pretty much word for word what our attorney told us. I consider the whole situation very sad.
-- Cheri Van Hoover, CNM, MS Faculty, Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University
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