Car Seat Anxiety
The car seat industry thrives on parental fear, and I believe much of that fear
is misplaced and deliberately manufactured. With a better treatment of
risk, I think we could help parents worry less, and have more children.
Background
There’s a really famous paper (Car Seats as Contraception) in this space which basically shows that the
creep of car seat legislation has led to a reduction in the probability of having a third child in America, just because the average American car can’t fit 3
car seats in the back. So people postpone, or in some cases, don’t have a third
child because it’d require a new car.
If you look at the number of children’s lives that the legislation have saved
(57) and compare that to the number of children who weren’t born because of the impact of car
seat leg...
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