Why I'm keeping my kids in a 5-point harness car seat for as long as possible.
My youngest daughter recently turned 3 years old. She weighs just over 30 pounds. If I wanted to finally be done with her bulky convertible car seat — the one that's difficult to install, the one that weighs as much as my kid does, the one that takes up so much space in our small car and is impossible to clean — I could go and pick up a"big kid" booster seat that, according to the label and manual, is safe for my child.
"As her chest and stomach jackknifed over the lap portion of her seat belt, her head rotated downward and stretched her neck,"since this girl's father filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer. As ProPublica noted,"the company's test bar was so low, the only way to fail was if the child-sized dummy ended up on the floor or the booster itself broke into pieces."
I could buy one of these booster seats for my young child today. And, more likely than not, I'll probably be able to buy one a year from now, too. And it's the reason that there's no way for parents to know if their children are at risk in other booster seats — because they all technically comply with federal regulations. Every other company works under the same ineffective regulatory landscape that doesn't demand even the most basic side-impact test standards. There's no federal data, no list of approved boosters or registry of dangerous ones.
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