Shoppers might be prepared to look for fakes when buying designer handbags at prices that seem a little too good to be true or ordering from sketchy online pharmacies, but when picking out a child car seat?

A new study finds many Iowa parents stop using child seats and booster seats as their children grow, despite those seats being an important safety measure — plus, it’s the law. In Iowa, kids between one and six years old must be secured in a child restraint system — a safety seat or booster seat,

Most parents are placing their kids in harms' way by moving them out of their car booster seat too soon, a new study warns.

"When you graduate a child to a different car seat or booster too soon, the child loses safety features and is exposed to greater risks and injuries," Aguilar explains. "For example, a child using a harness will be safer than a child using a seatbelt during a car crash if they're within the height and weight limit set by the car seat manufacturer."

Every parent and caregiver wants their kids to be safe in a car, but did you know 80 percent of car seats are used incorrectly? That’s according to Safe Kids Connecticut. This week, the state Department of Motor Vehicles is physically checking car seats to make sure children stay safe in crashes.