Obituary - Karp

Stanley Karp, MD

October 29, 1930

Cinnaminson, NJ - Sept. 11, 2020. Husband of Joan Karp. Mother of Laura (Paul) Bovitz, Andrea (Rob) Varone and David (Marsha Messina) Karp. Grandfather of D.J. Karp, Benjamin Varone, Alyssa Bovitz, Adam Varone and Drew Karp. Brother of the late Rita Ebner. Graveside services will be Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020 beginning 1:00 pm at Crescent Memorial Park (Sec. Temple Sinai), Pennsauken, NJ. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.

Published by Courier Post from Sep. 11 to Sep. 12, 2020.

Source: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/courierpostonline/name/stanley-karp-obituary?id=8487610

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Letters To The Editor Children Overfed Violence

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160102204901/http://articles.philly.com/1986-10-13/news/26058629_1_television-violence-average-american-child-watches-american-television

Posted: October 13, 1986

As a pediatrician dedicated to the health and safety of children, I am concerned about the increasing amount of violence shown on television. Next to the family, television is one of the major influences in a child's development, and it can serve a very positive, educational role. Unfortunately, television also can serve a negative role, such as exposing children to excessive amounts of violence.

In the past six years, the amount of violence shown on American television has doubled; children are bearing the brunt of this increase. Research shows that children's television programs are six times as violent as adults' shows. During one hour of cartoon-watching, children are exposed to about 20 acts of violence. In the course of a year, the average American child watches approximately 12,000 violent episodes. Dozens of studies have shown that children and adolescents can imitate the violence they see on television.

Sen. Paul Simon (D., Ill.) has introduced legislation that would provide an exemption from the antitrust laws to allow the television networks, independent stations and the cable industry to work together to reduce television violence. The legislation also would order the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a definitive study of television violence. Senate Bills 2322 and 2323, supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, warrant senators' approval.

Stanley Karp

Cinnaminson, N.J.

A Heads-up Approach To Bike Safety

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20151231224819/http://articles.philly.com/1990-06-27/news/25912382_1_bicycle-helmets-bicycle-safety-bicycle-accidents

By Louise Harbach, Special to The Inquirer

Posted: June 27, 1990

Debbie Flamini never thought much about bicycle safety until a friend, a pediatric nurse, bought bicycle helmets for her own children.

That's when Flamini bought helmets for her three children: Kristen, 9, Joey, 6, and Ryan, 3.

"If the nurse was concerned enough about the dangers of bicycle accidents to buy helmets for her children, we thought we had better buy them for ours," said Flamini, of Riverside. "Now they wear them all the time and don't think anything of it."

The Flaminis, though, were just about the only children wearing helmets at a bicycle safety day Saturday at Rancocas Hospital in Willingboro.

Too few children wear helmets, said Stanley Karp, a Cinnaminson pediatrician, "and we're seeing the results in emergency rooms at hospitals."

Karp, who is on staff at Rancocas Hospital, estimates that bicycle accidents send more than 400,000 people each year to emergency rooms.

"The majority of those who are injured in bicycle-related accidents are children, and more than one-third of those injuries are head injuries," he added. "We could decrease the number of head injuries dramatically if more children - and adults - wear bicycle helmets."

But getting children to wear helmets and getting parents to realize the importance of buying helmets and make children wear them aren't easy, which is why Karp organized a bicycle safety day.

He estimates that 2 percent of children nationwide wear helmets and said he thought the statistic would remain low until more parents insisted that their children wore helmets.

More than 250 children attended the event, which included entertainment, bicycle inspections by police officers from Willingboro and Burlington Townships, an obstacle course to test riding skills, talks by professional cyclists and discounted sales of bicycle helmets.

"Unfortunately, wearing a helmet isn't cool with youngsters today, so we've got to have children start wearing helmets as soon as they learn to ride a two-wheeler," said Karp, who has seen many bicycle injuries in 27 years of practice in Burlington County.

Like most parents who attended the event with their children, Brenda Gunnell of Willingboro wasn't aware of the danger of brain injury from bicycle accidents, she said.

"You've really got to be careful," Gunnell said as her daughters, Quinta Winter, 10, and Nina Gunnell, 7, waited in line to have their bicycles inspected.

Also in line to have her light-green bicycle inspected was Kelly Webb, 7, of Cherry Hill, who went to the event at the suggestion of her father, Doug Webb, a personnel director at the hospital.

"Kelly doesn't have a helmet," he said, "but we're learning quickly how important it is to have her wear one."