Posted by Phil Lee (216.250.238.141) on April 08, 2001 at 12:46:
Negligence Is Not a Parental Right
Washington Post, April 8, 2001; Page B08
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The safety measure, which could have cost parents as little as $25, looked likely to pass -- until March 16. Then Del. Dana Lee Dembrow (D-Montgomery) fired an eleventh-hour torpedo that sank the child-protection proposal of his fellow Montgomery County Democrat Del. William A. Bronrott.
Dembrow's amendment keeps the law from taking effect until two adjacent states pass similar legislation or until Maryland agrees to buy booster seats for all parents. "People can take care of their own kids," Dembrow said. "I'm defending the right of parents to be parents."
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