If these are the kind I’m thinking of, you don’t “break” anything. You push, the shutters move out of the way when there’s pressure on both sides, and the plug slides in. See here for a video.
No struggle at all, nanny-stateism through and through.
Tamper resistant receptacles are a good choice and should be on the market. I don’t think it’s necessary to make them mandatory by code.
Homes were wired in the 1930’s,40’s. Baby boomers, their children, and their grandchildren have managrd to live in those homes safely.
Kids sticking bobby pins in outlets isn’t all that common. I know it happens and I’m glad there’s after market products available that parents can purchase inexpensively.
I bought something like this 20 years ago when my kids were born. Took less than 30 mins to child proof the empty receptacles in the entire house.
Many receptacles are behind furniture and not accessible to children. Yet, code would require their use any way. It’s not fun fumbling behind a couch to plug in a lamp. Tamper resistant just makes it even harder.
Btw, jokes about electrical plugs and receptacles have been around long before I was born.
I like this one. Safe for work
https://goo.gl/images/6bJDvf
Pretty cute
My personal favorite.
Except for the ones that died, sure.
You misspelled “the ones who had sense enough to not fiddle with electrical outlets.” Darwin, luck, etc. 
Because 2 year olds are such models of constraint and safety.
Which is why I specifically pointed out inexpensive child safety caps for receptacles and used them in my own home.
No one here is suggesting safety in the home isn’t important.
We don’t need the Nanny State to tell us that.
Call it luck. I’m no fucking idiot, but as a kid, I stuck shit in the electrical outlet and got zapped a few times. I guess I eventually figured out not to do that, but how in the shit was I supposed to know the first time or two that sticking conductive materials into an electrical receptacle is a bad idea? Eventually, I figured it out through trial and error I guess, but what is this “sense” when you’re four or five years old and have no idea how the world works?
My brother wasn’t quite as lucky, although he survived, when he stuck something into an outlet and ended up with a trip to the ER and a giant electrical burn down his hand, maybe six inches long or so. Luckily, I was in the room with him and managed to somehow drag him from outlet without getting zapped myself (or perhaps he had already broken the connection), but it wasn’t pretty. He was probably about 3 at the time, and I would have been 9 or 10.
Well not anymore. The dim ones have reproduced!
If you are a professional in electrics, you should well know that safety standards are enforced for good reasons (which can be matters of life or death) and that you can get in hot water if you don’t apply them.
If you’re not, you had no business installing those receptacles in the first place.
(at least by the laws in my neck of the woods)
Apparently we do. Any other bits of building codes you’d like to do away with?
What did the electrician say when his daughter came home at 2:00 am?
“Wire you insulate?”
You mean the caps that, in a study conducted by the NFPA, 100% of toddlers were able to remove in 10 seconds?
I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but I do have to point out it says “100% of all 2-4 year olds were able to remove** one type** of plastic outlet cap within 10 seconds” (Bolding mine).
I know that toddlers can’t get mine off easily, because they end up being so stinking tight that it takes me a long time to get them off (mostly because I end up having to get a flat head screwdriver!).
I recently bought an outlet at Home Depot. It had a piece of actual clear plastic over the two plug openings. Are you sure there isn’t a piece of plastic with holes in it there now?
Just like a hymen, you mean?
They’re making hymens out of plastic these days?
So THAT’S why when we shifted sixty feet eastward to a remodeled unit in December of 2016 several wall outlets just Would. Not. Accept. the devices I tried to plug in. Cheap tamper-resistant outlets.
Got the handyman to fix them.