From The Times
August 21, 2007
Don’t take away risk – it’s much too risky
Patrick West: Thunderer
"Overprotective parenting, the banning of school trips and chemistry experiments, the outlawing of conker fights in the playground . . . our fear of letting our children take any sort of risk can be seen again and again. But the idea that it is possible to banish risk is not only itself infantile, it also puts children in even greater physical danger. In short, risk avoidance can be a risky business..."
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Patrick West is a freelance writer. Born in London in 1974 he graduated from Manchester University in 1997 with an MA in Cultural History. He has written for The Times, the New Statesman, and many others. He is author of the books Conspicuous Compassion (Civitas, 2004), The Poverty of Multiculturalism (Civitas, 2005) and Beating Them At Their Own Game, How The Irish Conquered English Soccer (Liberties Press, 2006). He writes weekly about television for spiked-online.com
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