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[quote=Anonymous]An interesting read...http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/magazine/10FREAK.html?_r=2&ex=1189915200&en=641c83d4b0668293&ei=5070

In 2005 Dubner and Levitt looked at MV fatalities in young children and found that statistically kids over 2 were no safer (in terms of dying) then kids over 2 restrained just with seatbelts. This was published in Freakonomics.

"Even a quick look at the FARS data reveals a striking result: among children 2 and older, the death rate is no lower for those traveling in any kind of car seat than for those wearing seat belts. There are many reasons, of course, that this raw data might be misleading. Perhaps kids in car seats are, on average, in worse wrecks. Or maybe their parents drive smaller cars, which might provide less protection. But no matter what you control for in the FARS data, the results don't change. In recent crashes and old ones, in big vehicles and small, in one-car crashes and multiple-vehicle crashes, there is no evidence that car seats do a better job than seat belts in saving the lives of children older than 2. (In certain kinds of crashes -- rear-enders, for instance -- car seats actually perform worse.) "

Now they just looked at fatality data - not injury data and injury likely would have been significantly higher in kids in seatbelts versus carseats.

But again..it is about facts. For all of you saying that your kids are 5 times safer in this seat than in that seat or at less risk of dying where are your stats or evidence to back this up?

I am not saying anyone shouldn't use a car seat, but I think ones perspective should be informed by evidence and not by emotion or marketing tactics of car seat companies trying to sell seats. [/quote]

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