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uilding does not face “extraordinary difficulties in proving liability under traditional negligence principles”); Bagley, 127 N.H. at 560 (declining to impose strict liability in action by landowner against adjoining landowner for damages resulting from soil and groundwater contamination because “there [was] no apparent impossibility of proving negligence”); Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 730 (1984) (refusing to extend strict liability to owner and operator of amusement par

In Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719 (1984), we were asked to recognize a cause of action for the parental loss of society of a minor child who had been injured or killed.

Siciliano v. Capitol City *283 Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 726, 475 A.2d 19, 22 (1984); RSA 507:8-a (1997).

Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 730, 475 A.2d 19, 25 (1984).

Except for a recent legislative amendment allowing the minor child of a decedent to recover for loss of familial relationship, RSA 556:12, III (Supp. 1998), damages under RSA 556:12 are awarded only to compensate for injuries suffered by the decedent and his or her estate, Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 728, 475 A.2d 19, 23-24 (1984).

at 559, 503 A.2d at 825; see Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 730, 475 A.2d 19, 25 (1984) (declining to extend a strict liability cause of action to purchasers of services); Moulton v. Groveton Papers Co., 112 N.H. 50, 53-54, 289 A.2d 68, 71 (1972) (rejecting tort standard of strict liability for ultrahazardous activity).

Generally, at common law, when negligence served as the legal source of liability, it gave “rise only to an obligation to compensate the person immediately injured, not anyone who predictably suffer[ed] loss in consequence of that injury, unless liability for that person’s consequential loss [had] a legal source besides its foreseeability.” Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 725, 475 A.2d 19, 21 (1984) (quotation omitted).

This court continues to be extremely reluctant to extend the doctrine of strict liability unnecessarily, Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 730, 475 A.2d 19, 25 (1984); Wood v. Public Serv.

Moreover, we reaffirmed in Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 728, 475 A.2d 19, 23-24 (1984) that “by contrast [to the large majority of States], the New Hampshire legislature has enacted a statute which limits damages to the injuries suffered by the decedent and his or her estate.

In Siciliano v. Capital City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 475 A.2d 19 (1984), an amusement ride accident resulted in the death of one child and cerebral injuries to another.

As this court stated in a recent case involving an amusement ride accident, the owner of a place of public amusement “must exercise that degree of care which, under the same or similar circumstances, would be exercised by an ordinarily careful or prudent individual.” Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 730, 475 A.2d 19, 25 (1984).

Buttrick stands alone, however, and later cases have declined to extend a cause of action in strict liability to purchasers of services, e.g., Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 730, 475 A.2d 19, 25 (1984), or to plaintiffs lacking any commerical relationship with the defendant, Wood v. Public Service Co., 114 N.H. 182, 188-89, 317 A.2d 576, 579-80 (1974).

See, e.g., Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 725, 475 A.2d 19, 21-22 (1984).

.” Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 725, 475 A.2d 19, 21 (1984).

In doing so, the court recognized that there is a ‘sanctity in the union of a parent and child that transcends economics and deserves the utmost respect.’” Siciliano v. Capitol City Shows, Inc., 124 N.H. 719, 475 A.2d 19 (1984) (Douglas, J., dissenting) (quoting Plante v. Engel, 124 N.H. 213, 216-17, 469 A.2d 1299, 1301 (1983)); see In re Jessica B., 121 N.H. 291, 429 A.2d 320 (1981).