“…Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for children aged 1-5 years in the USA (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CDC, NCIPC), 2012). The risk of injury in infants and young children is elevated in the offspring of young mothers (Ekeus et al, 2004;Robertson et al, 2014) and is associated with social factors including increased rates of poverty among teenage mothers (Durkin et al, 1994), lack of social support networks (Rhodes and Iwashyna, 2007) and limited household resources to accommodate the changing safety needs of the infant and young child (Barczyk et al, 2015). Among the children of young mothers, injuries requiring hospitalisation are most often unintentional, occur at home and are caused by falls, burns and poisoning (Jordan et al, 1993;Robertson et al, 2014).…”