A more thorough explanation:

The attractive nuisance doctrine is a legal principle that holds property owners responsible for dangerous conditions on their property that may attract children and pose a risk to their safety. In tort law, property owners have a duty to treat trespassing children as invitees and take reasonable care to eliminate potential dangers or provide adequate warning.

For example, a swimming pool may not be considered an attractive nuisance unless it includes some hidden or latent danger, as children generally understand the risks of drowning. However, a junkyard may be considered an attractive nuisance if not properly maintained, as it may entice young children to play among the debris and expose them to the risk of injury.

The attractive nuisance doctrine is based on the following factors:

• The place where the condition exists is one upon which the possessor knows or has reason to know that children are likely to trespass.
• The condition is one of which the possessor knows or has reason to know will involve an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to such children.
• The children do not discover or realize the risk involved in intermeddling or coming within the dangerous area.
• The utility to the possessor of maintaining the condition and the burden of eliminating the danger are slight compared with the risk to the children involved.
• The possessor fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise to protect the children.

While the attractive-nuisance doctrine is generally asserted to injured children who are too young to appreciate potential risks, adults may also invoke the doctrine when seeking damages for their own injuries suffered in an attempt to rescue a child from a danger created by the defendant's attractive nuisance.