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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s not to love?  They love their families unconditionally.[/quote]

So do babies? And also,  a baby has never mauled its family [/quote]

Children kill their parents all the time.[/quote]

I think you are kidding but this is actually incredibly rare.

Dog bites are super common, though. I like dogs but  most dogs could be provoked into biting a human without that much effort (even well behaved dogs-- they are animals with an attack instinct if they are sufficiently threatened), whereas most children simply don't have the means to murder someone even if given a good reason to do so.[/quote]

Have you ever breastfed a teething infant? Child bites happen all the time, and without provocation. One of the most relevant situations is the common one of a toddler who bites other toddlers in daycare.

Compare bites to bites.[/quote]

Comparing bites to bites, it is much, much more dangerous to be bitten by a dog than a child. Human beings are not built to be predators -- our teeth and jaws are not designed for clamping, ripping, and tearing. Many dogs' are. Now, dogs are domesticated and these instincts in dogs have been suppressed and reigned in. But I'd still rather be around a child who might bite me than a dog who might bite me.

My baby definitely bit me when she was teething. It could be surprising and sometimes hurt but it never even broke the skin. So "bite to bite" dogs are way scarier than children.[/quote]

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