""Another point  you might want to add to the carseat analogy is that the
baby's grandparents wouldn't have been put in carseats as infants, (because
they weren't available at the time), and they did just fine.""

I thought about this, too.  When we were waiting to adopt our first baby, 
back when carseat laws were just being voted on, I had told my MIL that we 
had everything we needed, except a carseat, which we were waiting on being 
delivered.  She said "You don't NEED a carseat.  I raised six babies without 
a car seat and they did just fine without one."  I said that I thought it 
was better not to have your baby just rolling around in the car to which she 
said, "They didn't roll around in the car, I HELD them".  I thought about 
the family a friend of mine had recently worked with, at Primary Children's 
hospital in SLC.  A baby about a year old had been riding in a pickup, on 
the lap of the unbelted grandmother.  They had gotten into a very minor 
accident, but it had thrown the grandmother forward into the glove 
compartment, with the baby in between.  The grandmother wasn't injured at 
all, but the baby's back was broken and he was expected to spend his life as 
a paraplegic.   I think that compares quite well with the old "I/my kids had 
formula and they are just fine" excuse.

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