ABSTRACT
In the early 1990s a group of parents in a fashionable suburban town became alarmed that
their children were in danger from playing soccer twice a week on a local high school
field. The parents were not worried that the kids might be hurt by falling, running into
each other, or getting hit by the soccer ball. They also did not fear that older high school
students might prey upon the younger children. Not even a lightning strike was their
concern.
