More about car safety seats.
Nearly three-quarters of American parents district their children in forward-facing carriage seats before it's secure to do so, a new read reveals. Guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) praise that a rear-facing car seat be used until a child is at least 2 years close or has outgrown the weight/height confine of the seat view site. For the study, University of Michigan researchers compared findings from surveys of American parents conducted about one month after the AAP guidelines were issued in 2011, and again in 2013.
The beforehand inspect found that 33 percent of parents of children old 1 to 4 years had started using forward-facing passenger car seats when their child was 1-year-old or younger, and only 16 percent waited until epoch 2 or older to use a forward-facing seat. In the 2013 survey, 24 percent of parents said they turned the fountain-head around before their child's head birthday, and 23 percent waited until majority 2 or older to use a forward-facing seat, the investigators found.