Compounded by being more likely to precipitate a dog attack, for multiple reasons: More likely to try to play with strange dogs, blunder into them by accident, elicit predation instincts by running/thrashing/emitting high-pitched squeals, tease dogs in unwise ways, etc[/I]. Responsible parenting helps with all of those, and responsible dog ownership mitigates most, too.
Agreed, in the same way that one should keep swimming safety facts in mind if one has kids or a pool that will be used by kids.
I have no reason to doubt that these particular numbers were fudged, but to assert that they can't?
Consider an earlier statement that a source had zero accounting for dog bites from a breed heavily used for WMDs and and police dogs, uses that include roles that quite specifically entail that the animal bite people...