Yes, I often see babies/children not in carseats and in VERY unsafe
positions in cars -- sitting or standing in someone's lap in the
front seat, for example, or the baby in a carseat/carrier that is
merely placed in the car, not secured to the seat in any way.

Unsafe practices like these are all too common.  I agree that the
media seems to be making way too much of the breastfeeding angle with
this story.  The endangerment aspect must be simply too
run-of-the-mill, sigh.

Margaret
Longmont, CO

>What I find interesting is that the media has made this more about
>breastfeeding and not so much about child endangerment.  Had this been a
>story about a mom placing her child up on the steering wheel to see better
>or hold the wheel while she drove this story wouldn't have gotten farther
>than its local station/newspapers.
>-Monique
>Corvallis, OR

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