In fact, the day the company I worked for went public, I was advised to get such an umbrella policy because I was now a target for such law suits. We could eith

In fact, the day the company I worked for went public, I was advised to get such an umbrella policy because I was now a target for such law suits. We could either stop having neighborhood kids in our house or get it added to our home insurance, but leaving things as they were was perceived as too risky. I don't have any way to quantify the risk, and obviously it's in the insurance company's interests for me to buy more insurance, but it definitely brought home how litigious a society we live in. I wonder if the parent talked about in the article has a major umbrella policy. Jumping from the roof of that play house onto a trampoline seems kind of insane. Letting young children play on the roof of your house also seems crazy. Letting your kid beat up on my kid out of an attachment to your parenting philosophy is definitely not ok in my book. I'm older than most people posting here, and I never did any of that as a child. I did do construction in the summers as a much older kid (the article describes 4 year olds on the roof of his house), and got hurt enough to go to the hospital three times, but these were the risks of the job. Finally, this guy seems pretty sexist. It's ok for me to keep my little girls from bullying other children, but boys have to learn to defend themselves? Let me guess, is that because girls are expected to ask permission and behave nicely, but boys aren't?