[Roccus]

Back then we didn’t have rear facing child car seats in the rear seat either. Also, there was no feminist movement telling women that they didn’t need husbands or even men for that matter....they could have it all.

[tips up]

True. Another unintended consequence of the feminist movement.

[Fairview]

My recollection from my own childhood is that there were portable bassinets that were put in the back seat. Child was out of sight, out of mind then, too. But the vast, vast majority of mothers were at home and did not drive around with the child in the back seat, because Dad took the one family car to work each day while Mom stayed home.

We did not have so many divorces back then, and we did not have a society that says it's okay for a father to sire a child and then ease on down the road, so there were relatively few single mothers driving around.

[colorado tanker]

Back then we didn’t have rear facing child car seats in the rear seat either

Excellent point. These days, kids can't be in the front seat because of air bags and even in the back seat the safety jihadis insist on rear-facing seats for the youngest. You can't even look in the mirror to see how your kid is doing. It really is a prescription for accidents like this, a very small, but predictable number.