The seatbelt thing is happening more and more. I don’t know where the girls get it from (B”Y or sem teaches it? Or it’s a peer thing, that their friends say not to wear one?) but it doesn’t just happen on dates. I’ve given rides to young girls (and I’m an old married man with kids of my own, though of course that doesn’t mean the relevant issues don’t exist) and had my kids ask me why our passenger (sitting in the back, not in view of my mirrors either) was not wearing a seatbelt. I wouldn’t have known that this was why except that she answered. I have other situations where it may have been more justified (relative girl sitting in the front) but I hope that the justification comes from a daas torah.
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