Should children be used as human shields?

What I find bermusing is when a parent is loading their kid into their car and the child seat is on the road, not the pavement side of the car. So what do they do? They take the kid out into the traffic and load the car from the road, instead of doing the (in my eyes) sensable thing of leaving the kid on the pavement and moving the seat over.

Is it just me, or does anyone else not understand this?

-Gordo

So while you're fucking around moving the car seat the child is free to do what he wants, any ol' time. Including running into the busy road.

Fine if you have a car seat that uses an ISOFix harness, but when you use a seatbelt to hold the seat down they can be a complete pain in the ass.

But I do understand you point though! Personally if I have to park on a main road with the boy in the back I always park on the side with the car seat. God knows what I'll do if I ever have another kid though, probably use one car for each so neither has to get out on the road side....