It used to be that quality commercial playground equipment could be found at parks and schools. Recently playground equipment has become a popular product to put in backyards for residential use. Though this is a great feature for parents who encourage their children to spend time playing outside, families have become less dependent on quality parks and school playgrounds to provide fun play spaces. With this and the increase in liability issues, there is a huge decrease in the number of parks and playgrounds that have swing sets as part of their setting. This is a tragedy for children who do not have swings in their backyard. Most playground equipment poses a liability risk due to injury or misuse. But, for some reason swings have been targeted as a more likely culprit than the rest, and therefore left out of the lineup.
I would venture to argue that playground equipment is not complete without a decent set of swings. It would be like a park without a slide. Swings and slides have been the staple for recreation areas for years. If the number of accidents occurring on slides increases, will they be chopped from parks as well? It would mark another tragic death due to liability, like the swings.
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