WHY ARE PLAYGROUNDS NEEDED?
We have known for a long time how important it is to provide playgrounds for children. Socrates (400 B.C.) was quoted as saying that children need to have the opportunity to play in order to become effective adults. We also know that playgrounds are vital to children’s physical, emotional, social, and psychological growth as well. Therefore, if we tore out these structures because we feel they are too much of a liability risk, the children would find something to play on that is much worse. At least these are structures that we can have a level of control over. Basically, there is a “duty” to provide play equipment. STATISTICS Depending upon which statistics you look at, there are 150,000 to over 230,000 children admitted to hospitals every year! We tend to see only numbers, but these are real kids and real pain. What goes unnoticed is the realization that this amount accounts only for the injuries severe enough to warrant a hospital visit, and not all of the others that are NOT report
