‘Children need to be in the front seat where parents can physically see them and comfort them when needed or spend time talking or singing to them...’
It is against the law in most states to have child in a front seat of a passenger car. In most states a baby MUST be in the back seat. Rear facing, in an infant seat until age 2. Children must be in safety or booster seats until age 8.
I know what the law says but I also know that my children rode in the front seat where I could keep an eye on them and talk to them while we were driving. Of course that was before we had government interfering and mandating that we had to have air bags in the passenger seat.
They also rode in the back of their dad’s pick-up truck along with our two dogs.
I see absolutely nothing safe about a child in the back seat in a rear facing seat where you absolutely cannot keep an eye on them.
My children were also put to bed in a crib with slats, no bumper pads, on their stomach and with a blanket covering them. The horror of it all!