Montana's new law means safer kids

Montana now has a new law about kids and child safety restraints. The new law comes closer to what we know to be the safest practices for the safety of our children while they are passengers in cars.

For years Montana law about children and child safety restraints lagged behind what those involved in child passenger safety have known to be safe practices. Despite that, many citizens have learned what is best and put it into practice even though the law didn't require it.

Unfortunately, many Montanans believed that since there wasn't a law requiring children over the age of 2 to be in a child s...