(a) It is perfectly reasonable to be upset that a 3-year-old is not being restrained in a car seat.

(b) It is especially perfectly reasonable to be upset that a 3-year-old is not being restrained in a car seat when one has been provided for him free of charge.

(c) I have called in several unrestrained children to the police in my lifetime -- all long before I had PTSD. :)

Some things just way "cross the line" in life ... IMHO, not buckling a child up in a car seat is one of them. The child is the innocent victim here. The child has no understanding in what is going on. The child is relying on his/her mother to make the right decision and protect him or her, and that mother is hurting her child by not caring for him or her in such an easy and effective way.

Confronting a mother about this, and calling it in to police, are not unreasonable behaviors.

Bailey