By Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD
Among the 1,532 parents responding to the Vision Council's VisionWatch Parent for Child Report who have not taken their children to receive an eye exam within the past two years, 63 percent claim they have not taken their children for an exam because their children do not need an exam. Parents with children over the age of 10 living at home and parents with more than one child living at home were more likely than other parents to avoid eye exams for their children because of the belief that their children don’t need one.