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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If only there were experts who could help settles this...

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/on-the-go/Pages/Car-Safety-Seats-Information-for-Families.aspx

Yeah 13 for front seat regardless of weight. It's a bone and muscle development thing.

I see so many folks discarding booster seats at 8, and their kids don't fit properly in the seat belts. I don't get why these parents are so stupid. Might as well be anti-vax, it's the same principal.[/quote]

Actually, it's not.  It's the same princip[u]le[/u].  [/quote]

It's neither.  Not vaxxing your child causes harm to the community.  Not restraining your child properly only hurts your child.  Not the same things AT ALL.[/quote]

Until the child is seriously injured in an accident and now the community has to provide special schooling, social security payments for life based on disability, and potentially medical expenses. All of which effect the community.

I don't understand how people fail to see how people miss the larger communal implications of pregnancies, car accidents, drug use and the like. They very rarely affect only the family involved. There is a large ripple through the community due to serious car accidents that leave anyone seriously injured. A family that chooses to not put a child in a booster seat or let the child ride in the front seat too early or doesn't use seat belts has a higher probability of suffering a serious injury or dying which will impact the community.

Wear your darn seat belt. Make your kid wear their seat belt. Make your kid sit in a booster seat and the back seat until they are old enough to not need those restrictions. The whining is far less annoying then visiting the hospital, or god forbid a cemetery, because you are being a responsible adult and telling your kid to sit in the booster seat.[/quote]

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