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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 10:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Playsmart
That is what confuses the hell out of me. To me, if the option is any car seat or sitting in a lap....where is the question????!!!!!!????
One explanation I've heard, but can't guarantee the accuracy of, is that some seats are too hard to remove the child from in a hurry, as in emergency evacuation. I could easily see a kid getting tangled in the cloth top of the seat linked in the original post - a hard back seat would not cling to the child.
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