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It's not to protect the baby, thefts of children (etc) are rarer than lightning strikes.

• strictnein 10y ago
  Actual thefts? Sure. Related issues (family disputes, unwanted guests, etc)? Far more common.
  • EdHominem 10y ago
    Keep the guests out with a door that's locked from the outside, sure. But lock people in? Recipe for disaster! I trust my smoke alarm - to probably give me extra warning. I don't trust it to unlock the door and let me out.
• pm24601 10y ago
  it is also there to prevent unmonitored/uncontrolled access to babies. Prevent things like babies being mixed up. Aides taking wrong child for testing etc.
• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > It's not to protect the baby, thefts of children (etc) are rarer than lightning strikes. Maternity ward infant abduction is an ongoing thing, though now fairly rare (and even more rarely successful, with dozens of attempts stopped within the ward for each successful abduction) because of the security measures that have been instituted by hospitals in the last few decades. But that's a success of the security measures, not an indicator that they aren't necessary.
  • EdHominem 10y ago
    And lightning does strike, some times, some places. Putting fences around every tree to keep people from hiding under them would save some lives. But in this case there's a rather large negative of being trapped. It's not enough that there be some theoretical benefit, but that the benefit outweighs the costs.