[DenverSteve]

Your car, family and decisions but we mandated that everyone in our house learn to properly drive a stick. This is the only country where you can hop into a car shift into D and go. Most cars in most other countries (and a fair amount here) are manual and (I believe) everyone should be proficient with a manual transmission.

That also eliminates any need to buy an auto for any reason other than "I want to".