I’ve never ever heard one person tell me that their kids were asked that and mine never were, that’s for sure. Why would they want to know that? It’s not of their damn business.
NJ is a hell hole of a place to live for lots of reasons.
A good pediatrician will ask the parents, not the kids, about safety features in the home, so that they can advise the parents. Too many parents don’t have a clue. Doesn’t mean the doc is recording the information and sending it into the government or anything sinister.
When we changed primary care physicians, the info form for the new medical ass’n asked that very question. I’d not seen it before. It remained blank.
I was there with one of my grandchildren (2 yrs old at the time) and the pediatrician's nurse/clerk asked the question of me.
In addition, in 2000, I was with my daughter when she first came up to the room after child birth and in the long questionnaire the nurse wanted info to fill out was that question. She also asked whether anyone in the extended family kept a gun in the house and whether anyone in the extended family ever used drugs.
Maryland....Land of the free....home of the brave....