I stick with my advice because I think it is superior to the advice you have read cooked up by either by some civil servant or someone involved in the child seat business. If an airbag can kill a properly restrained child in the front seat of a car then it can also kill an adult. So what is the point of fitting passenger airbags at all? The point is to save lives, not to kill people whether they are adults or children. Of course it's safer for children to ride in the back. It's safer for anyone to ride in the back because that puts more car in front of them in the case of a frontal collision. It's also safer to travel in the centre rear seat because that puts more car between the occupant and any side impact.

To show how ridiculous the CDC advice is, it does not even mention side airbags or curtain airbags or rear airbags. There are commonly as many as 12 airbags in a modern car. All there to save lives, not to kill people. If, as you say, there have been over a hundred deaths of children in recent years, due to the force at which an airbag deploys, where do you get this figure from? Total deaths in cars in 2012 were 875. Total deaths in the year to end June 2013 were 635. Please give me the number of forward facing, restrained child deaths caused by airbags either in 2012 or in the year to end June 2013. Against that needs to be put the number of restrained chidren's lives saved by airbags in the front seats of cars. If figure A exceeds B then I will be forced to retract. If figure B exceeds A then you will. As it is, I simply don't believe the figure you have touted.