Parental Odds

     Pity poor parents. You want your child to be 100% safe in everything they do. You don't want to put them at risk for almost any reason.
     The recent case of the little girl who is brain-dead after a  tonsillectomy must have resulted in parents being reluctant to have their kids go under the knife for anything except operations that can not be avoided. A CBS-TV report on the operation finds the following:

...the chance of a child dying during a tonsillectomy was about one in 30,000. 

     Now those are pretty good odds, unless you are a parent sending your child in for the operation, I'm guessing. Would you take a chance with yours? Do parents become less risk-adverse after time, or after the family grows?

Tough decisions!