You guys have echoed many of the things I told him. My first response was "Because they're lazy"
eek: judgmental much?), but sometimes I honestly think (especially when talking to his family) that they simply don't want to take the time. His youngest sister recently moved her 1 year old into a convertible. Of the four of us who have kids under the age of two, only hers and mine are still RF'ing because she was too overwhelmed to even know how to choose a new seat, so she called me and just asked me to do it (she also told me that buying ketchup and cereal makes her feel incredibly overwhelmed, so there's that
). I offered to shop with her to make it easier, but she just wasn't interested, so I bought the seat, I read the manual, I taught her how to install it, and I told her he needs to stay RF'ing. I haven't seen her car since then, so she could very well have turned him by now like her sisters all do with their 1 year olds, but hopefully she at least heeded that bit of advice. They all just seem to have the attitude of "I don't know where to start", so they don't start at all.
We all start somewhere...I get that. I was far from best practice with my first three, but even then, compared to the norm, I at least sought out enough info to not turn them FF'ing the day they turned 1, and took the time to choose the best seat for our vehicle. I don't expect the average person to know as much about carseats as those of us here do, but I'm sometimes baffled by not only the complete lack of knowledge, but the complete apathy toward at least learning the basics.