This is just so fundamentally disconnected from anything I can relate with I don't know what to say. I'm all about being critical of "safety first", sometimes to the chagrin of my wife, but having or even requiring child seats is not bubble wrapping. (though I do find the "until they're 9" in California a bit much)

Making it so babies aren't dying from minor traffic accidents is not bubble wrapping the whole world.

Yes, it is. Read the other replies, specifically the ones pointing out that child seats are not one-size-fits-all.

I do not enjoy your implication that the only way I could possibly disagree with you is if I'm ignorant.

(Shrug) I don't enjoy your implication that you should be allowed to re-engineer society singlehandedly. We'll have to agree to disagree.

I'm pretty sure I implied nothing of the sort.

Well, same here.