More About Car Safety Seats

More About Car Safety Seats.
Nearly three-quarters of American parents bung their children in forward-facing crate seats before it's safe to do so, a new swat reveals. Guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend that a rear-facing carriage seat be used until a child is at least 2 years old or has outgrown the weight/height determine of the seat. 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 gold scrutinize found that 33 percent of parents of children aged 1 to 4 years had started using forward-facing pile seats when their child was 1-year-old or younger, and only 16 percent waited until age 2 or older to use a forward-facing seat. In the 2013 survey, 24 percent of parents said they turned the centre around before their child's beforehand birthday, and 23 percent waited until age 2 or older to use a forward-facing seat, the investigators found.

And "So we've seen some improvement, with a higher distribution of parents reporting that they are waiting longer to confirm the switch to a forward-facing car seat," swot lead author Dr Michelle Macy, of the university's CS Mott Children's Hospital, said in a university low-down release. "However, almost one-quarter of parents are turning their children before their pre-eminent birthday. And few parents report waiting until that second birthday to make the turn".

Macy said getting parents to "delay the development to a forward-facing seat still represents an opportunity to improve passenger shelter in the United States". Traffic crashes are a leading cause of death among children younger than 4 years, the learning authors noted in the news release. "There are lots of reasons why parents are energized to change from the rear-facing to forward-facing seat: the perception their children are too large, the desire to consider their children when driving, and a greater ease of removing their children from a forward-facing seat. But delaying the deviate can make a big difference chandan powder chehre pe lagane ke nuskhe - worldplusmed. In Sweden it is culturally accepted that children up to age 4 are in rear-facing seats and woman traffic fatalities are among the lowest in the world".