Britney Spears giving her all to promote child seat safety
Pop star Britney Spears is doing more for the promotion of child car seat safety than the industry could have ever possibly hoped for, and yet she hasn't earned a dime. The starlet recently committed her second child seat faux pas when she put son Sean Preston in a car seat facing forwards in the back of her Mini Cooper convertible. While California vehicle code doesn't specify which way the child seat should be facing, it does mandate that motorists follow federal guidelines, which clearly state that the seat should be facing backwards.
In Britney's defense, manufacturers vary on the recommended positioning of the seat and Sean Preston's seat may very well be one which the manufacturer recommends it faces forward.
[Source: CNN.com]
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traviww 6:10PM (5/17/2006)
God leave her alone.....She can buy and sell probably anyone she wants....
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Richard Warren 6:11PM (5/17/2006)
God, how did we all live, with no child seats and only mom's arm flying into us in a hard stop or grabbing our shirt by the neck to hold us in place, made even better with those clear plastic seat covers my dad put on to protect the fabric. Actually I had a child seat, the one that had two metal pieces that went over the seat and had a sterring wheel and a horn
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R R 6:31PM (5/17/2006)
while child seat manufactures all have different guidelines as to the wieght range that a forward facing child seat may hold, they all have the same for age. The child must be at least 1 year of age before placing them in said seats. I know, I spent many months before having the chance to place my son in his Recaro Child Seat, which can only face forward.
Here is another case where someone thinks that they can do whatever they want regardless of what is right. Also, how safe is that child in an accident, facing forward in a mini-car?
she needs to be charged with child endagerment, and the fact that she got off without so much as a slap on the pinky for her last infraction is a total injustice.
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felonious monk 6:41PM (5/17/2006)
WHO CARES.
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Woody 6:50PM (5/17/2006)
Nice Mini.
I agree who cares?
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DJ 7:04PM (5/17/2006)
Growing up, my parents had a 1967 Dodge Coronet station wagon with the third row seat (Chrysler's early version of Stow N Go). My brother and used to ride in that seat facing rearward, without seatbelts and the rear window all the way DOWN no less, which was probably about as unsafe as it gets. We've both managed to survive into our mid-40's despite this.
Give the woman credit for actually having her child in a car seat. I see so many kids that are not not only not in car seats but not even buckled. I'm just waiting for the sunscreen Nazi's to ask why her 8-month old was in a convertible and whether he had the proper SPF on his face and head......
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Tom 7:28PM (5/17/2006)
I survied childhood in the pre-seatbelt, no-headrest era. My sisters and I used to fight over who got to sit on the fold-down armrest in the back seat of the Frasier. Today it would be illegal...
Leave the trailer park lady alone. She's doing just fine. Just don't make me listen to her sing.
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Jason 7:31PM (5/17/2006)
This is natual de-selection at work, she's gonna kill that kid by snapping it's neck, and it won't even need to be in an accident.
Her mistake is our lesson,
Jason
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WillDaThrill 7:56PM (5/17/2006)
Man, I don't care for the girl, but damn, y'all been pickin' on her since the barefoot public bathroom incident. Get a frickin' life and for the love of God, leave her alone. I bet you f**ks can't wait till she has her next kid so you can nit pick on her for that!
It looks like a forward facing only seat anyway.
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GOKARTN 8:11PM (5/17/2006)
SO WHAT
Leave her alone
If she was not famous, people would simply say "look at the cute kid with the young pretty mom in the cute little car".
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Geir E 8:20PM (5/17/2006)
Is THAT child endagerment? I don't know what you guys do in US but I think you got a lot of bigger problems than britney facing her kid forward in her car. Everyone can own a gun in US, making everyone with a twisted mind a very dangerous person. You still have a big problem with racism even in 2006 and people tend to sue for their own stupidity on a daily basis AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT.
Some day the last american will shoot himself and sue himself for the damages, beeing the only one left he'll prosecute himself and give himself the death penalty just to kill himself with a second shot. Probably while making a last complaint that britney once gave her kid some food that wasn't of the correct nutrition value and how unfit of a mother she was.
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m 8:52PM (5/17/2006)
Geir E lives on the wonderfully perfect and serene planet of Venus
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Whiplash 9:46PM (5/17/2006)
Get a grip #3. Geeze, what an uptight world we live in. This is certainly not child endangerment, and to call for charges is rediculous. I doubt any one of us can say we made absolutely NO mistakes when raising our first kid. If you can even call this a legitimate mistake.
Anyway, seatbelt laws are relatively new, yet entire generations of car drivers have managed to survive and multiply despite our parents "endangering" our lives.
I remember we had a huge Lincoln Contenental 4-door, the kind with suicide doors in back. What a great car. When you're 7 the back seat seems as wide as a football field. Me and my sister would slide back and forth on the leather seats, squishing each other against the doors when my mom made turns. So much fun!
And yes, I live to tell about it. :-)
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Mick 9:54PM (5/17/2006)
#3, You are totally out of line. The woman has the child secured in a baby car seat. She's more concientious than half the drivers I see, so leave her the heck alone.
As for some of your fellow posters who spent their childhoods standing up on on the back seat, some of them would apparently be against the polio vaccine, too, just because they didn't happen to come down with it.
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JW 10:34PM (5/17/2006)
It's not like she's the only one that puts her child in her lap while driving. The people don't even know her situation. The kid could've been sick, babies need to be comforted...atleast that's what I am told.
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Chizzle 10:44PM (5/17/2006)
#12, who said anything about being against proper child protection? The issue they have is the over reaction to the child seat facing forward.
#10, racism, guns, and stupidity have been apart of America for a looonnnnnnggggg time. I don't think we'll be destroying ourselves anytime soon because of it. Don't get too smug though, we learned it from the rest of the world. ;-|
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David 10:48PM (5/17/2006)
For all you guys saying "So what?" and "I survived without a car seat" -- come on, what do you really know? Speeds are higher and people spend more time on the road than before, and there are plenty of studies showing that the primary cause of death for children is car accidents.
I have a three year old and a six month old, and if you have just a modicum of responsibility you learn that the right position for any child under a year old is to have them facing backwards. Their heads are relatively large and their necks are too soft to take a big hit while going forward (look at how Britney's kid's head is slumped to the side). That's why they should face backwards. Britney, of course, doesn't bother to learn the details.
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Stoneman 11:05PM (5/17/2006)
You know what I haven't had in a long time?
Big League Chew.
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GCH 11:49PM (5/17/2006)
I agree with #11. We certainly live in a rich society where we have the luxury to follow and trash every little event our celebrities engage in or not.
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Tom Design 12:23AM (5/18/2006)
She's no dumb blond, no way! She's got a second kid on the way in case this one dies.
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