Keeping Adults and Children Educated Nationwide: Creating Awareness on Unsafe Swimming Environments. Drowning is the LEADING cause of unintentional death for children ages 1-4 in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The state of Florida has an exceptionally high risk of child drownings because nearly every home has a pool. For those who do survive a drowning, about half end up with severe brain damage, resulting in a severely diminished quality of life. According to the CDC, most child drownings happen in familiar places (65% were their home pools, while a third were in pools owned by friends or relatives.) More than half of the child drowning victims in 2017 had been out of site of an adult for only 5 minutes or less. Almost half were last seen inside the home and a quarter were seen in the yard, porch, or patio. In all, 69% of the children involved in a drowning incident were not expected to be near or in the pool, yet that is where they were found. Drowning is a silent death. It is not like the movies, with yelling and thrashing about. It is quick, and it is silent. There is no actual splashing that would alert someone to a child (or anyone) in distress. This is the information we need to get out to the public. Most people have NO idea of these statistics and facts. Most people think it would never happen to them. Most people are wrong. It can happen to anybody. Which is why we want the Florida law changed to include stricter pool safety measures. These are our CHILDREN, the next generation, our FUTURE. We must protect them. We must instill law, guidelines, education, and awareness in the adults of today so that we can save the children who will be the adults of tomorrow. Help us change the law, help us spread knowledge and awareness, help us save a child's life. The current Florida laws regarding pool safety are outdated and inadequate. Companies can make Do-It-Yourself pool fences and sell them to the public, advertising them as safe, that it will keep your child from the dangers of a pool. It didn't keep Kacen safe. In fact, the pool fence did not even meet the requirements set forth by the pool safety laws. However, these laws only apply to NEWLY built homes and NEWLY installed pools. They do not apply to existing, older homes with pools, not to mention the homeowners that remove the safety measures themselves once their children are older. A new bill needs to be introduced to supplement the one currently in place. One of it's biggest requirements should be to implement a separate pool safety inspection to be a requirement of buying and selling a home, so that older homes must upgrade their safety measures. DIY pool fences should not be allowed, and the home owner should have to hire a licensed pool fence technician to install the fence. Currently, the Florida law requires only ONE pool safety measure. However, over 90% of Florida's home swimming pools were built before the Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act took effect in 2000. This means that over 90% of the pools in Florida have the ability to NOT meet the law requirements, and that does not break any kind of law. We want to change that. While buying or selling a home, the pool safety measures should be upgraded to the current safety measures. If buying a pool fence, it should be installed by a licensed technician. If you are unable to donate monetarily, then please SHARE and spread the knowledge you just learned to your friends and family. Everybody thinks it can't happen to them. They're wrong. Help us save our children's lives. Help us pass a new bill with stricter laws. Together we can save lives!

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