[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Much of the lead-ingesting cases and resulting mental capacity damage has been done in low-rent/ownership tenement row-houses in the inner cities.

The children were allowed to crawl around the place unsupervised and when they could stand, the first place they where they could reach was the windowsill.

The blame for this was mainly on lousy, don’t care landlords, unattentive or neglect parents/siblings, and just the aging of the paint.

Also the use of cheap paints in rental units and projects.

Enough blame to go around the block, sadly.

[nopardons]

Of course, you're correct and though I only hinted it at it, you laid it all out, in full.

This problem is only a "PROBLEM", for certain socio-economic strata and for all of the reasons you stated.