Boys are now twice as likely to get injured falling out of bed as they are falling out of trees, according to statistics from accident & emergency departments. Seven years ago the numbers were equal
I missed that item in the press, but have caught up with it in the June edition of Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society
What I liked about this item was that the (unnamed) author first offers 7 possible explanations for this social change. For example, #5: small modern homes → more children sleeping in bunk beds → further to fall
Only then do they mention what most people would leap to as the obvious conclusion: removal of freedom to roam, helicopter parenting, addiction to computer games
