On May 19 11:17 96, John Pummill of 1:123/30 wrote to Jake Langille:
JP>  Balderdash. Please explain why any child NEEDS more than we did. Show me 
JP> where the earth has changed so much that a bicycle helment is now needed 
JP> where it was not before.
It changed somewhere around the time women stopped having a pregnancy a year, 
we stopped taking it for granted that a lot of kids would die in infancy, and 
we started worrying about paying for vacations when we were in our 80s.
Jerry Schwartz
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