Soccer Dad

You need a license to drive but not to have children

You might remember that Britney Spears had some problems a few months ago

In February, authorities visited Spears' home after photos showed her driving in a car with the baby on her lap, rather than in a safety seat as required by law. Spears later apologized, saying she held the boy because of an encounter with paparazzi.

Well, whoops, she's apparently done it again.

Front-page photographs in Tuesday's New York Post and New York Daily News depict the 24-year-old ... pop star driving her convertible Mini Cooper with 8-month-old son Sean Preston in the back, sitting in a car seat facing forward.

The photos - in which Spears also sports hair curlers - have sparked debate over whether the singer violated the California vehicle code.

The code states that child safety-seats must be properly installed according to federal safety guidelines which recommend that babies up to a year old and up to 20 pounds ride in them in the back seat facing backward, Marshall said.

Apparently she has a license to drive because she didn't get stopped for that. And even if she hasn't yet learned how to properly secure her infant in the car. (And a Mini-Cooper yet.) But even if she can't parent, that hasn't stopped her. I left out a word from the above excerpt. Britney Spears is pregnant one more time. She didn't need a license for that.

Oh and for those of you who were wondering, Britney has ended her Kabbalah studies. Apparently she's now taken up Hinduism.

Glad to see that she's serious about religion, even if she can't decide which one.

UPDATE: Fire Ant Gazette disagrees. Two or three generations of people grew to adulthood never having been properly secured in an infant car seat. Shiloh Musings has a different defense of Britney in the comments below.

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Posted by SoccerDad at May 17, 2006 7:46 AM