CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Parenting books on teenagers are less likely to contain injury prevention messages than those that give advice on parenting small children.
A study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said there was a notable lack of discussions about preventing automobile accidents among adolescents.
The UNC Injury Prevention Research Center investigation, which appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, reviewed the 46 best-selling advice books for parents.
Prevention of automobile mishaps and burns were the most commonly addressed injury prevention topics in the books focused on younger children, while gun safety was the leading topic in books about adolescents, researchers found.
"We were especially surprised by how little attention the adolescent parenting books devoted to motor vehicle safety, which is the most important injury problem for adolescents," said Wanda M. Hunter, senior author of the paper and associate professor of social medicine at the UNC School of Medicine.
