'There’s no mandate for the government suddenly to force parents to pay extra for a safety precaution that is likely unnecessary, especially while flying is still tremendously safer than traveling in a car,' madelineefry writes.
We were lucky: Our “lap child,” as airlines refer to children under two who fly for free in their parent’s arms, stayed generally sanguine thanks to a combination of intermittent breastfeeding and cuddles from mom and dad. If we had been required to restrain him in a car seat, this would have been a different story.
But the appeal to the United Airlines Flight 232 disaster is based on the outcome of outdated and patently ridiculous guidance that in the event of an emergency, lap children be padded with blankets and put on the floor rather than nestled in their parents’ arms. Even President-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics Ben Hoffman, who recommends that parents buy an extra ticket for their babies and car seats,that this poses a problem. If cash-strapped parents “travel by car instead,” he says, “they will actually be putting themselves at a significantly greater risk because car crashes are so much more common than airplane incidents, whether it’s a crash or turbulence.”the relative risks of driving vs.
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