Originally Posted by caspritz78

I always wonder when I see someone with a lap child on a plane. Would this person carry his/her child in his/her lap in a car or would the child be put in a child-seat.

I really don't understand the idea of a "lap-child" on planes. In a case of an emergency, turbulence or in the case of a hard landing your child will become a projectile you can't hold in your arms.