What is the role of a parent in protecting a child from harm?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lever et. al. v. Katerberg, 2019 ONSC 48 (CanLII):
Parents cannot ensure that a child is safe from every peril. All parents can do is inform and instruct, shelter and sustain: see Ibrahim v. McLenahan, [1996] B.C.J. No. 3128.
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