The requirements for childseats make it next to impossible to have standard cars with young children really
This is another thing that a lot of people without kids don't understand.
All kids today are put in carseats until they are in late elementary school. It's no longer okay to let a kid ride shotgun, or to cram four in the back seat and have them share seat belts, or pile a slumber party's worth of girls into the back of a station wagon. I have only two kids, but having a minivan means that we can offer rides to friends, we can carpool, we can take more than just our nuclear family when we go on an outing. We can put our family into a standard sedan but no extra people will fit.
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Date: 2007-04-11 05:22 pm (UTC)This is another thing that a lot of people without kids don't understand.
All kids today are put in carseats until they are in late elementary school. It's no longer okay to let a kid ride shotgun, or to cram four in the back seat and have them share seat belts, or pile a slumber party's worth of girls into the back of a station wagon. I have only two kids, but having a minivan means that we can offer rides to friends, we can carpool, we can take more than just our nuclear family when we go on an outing. We can put our family into a standard sedan but no extra people will fit.