Volkswagen Golf GTI 2016, Owner'S Manual

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A front seat passenger, especially an infant or small child, will be
seriously injured and can even be killed if sitting too close to the
airbag when it deploys.
All vehicle occupants and especially children must be
restrained properly whenever riding in a vehicle. An
unrestrained or improperly restrained child could be injured by
striking the interior or by being ejected from the vehicle during
a sudden maneuver or impact. An unrestrained or improperly
restrained child is also at greater risk of injury or death through
contact with an inflating airbag.
A child in a rearward-facing child restraint installed on the front
passenger seat will be seriously injured and can be killed if the
front airbag inflates.
The inflating airbag will hit the child restraint or infant carrier
with great force and will smash the child restraint and the child
against the seat backrest, center armrest, door, or roof.
Accident statistics show that children are safer on the rear seat
than on the front seat.
A suitable child restraint properly installed and used at one of
the rear seating positions provides the highest degree of
protection for infants and small children in most accident
situations.
For their own safety, all children, especially 12 years and
younger, must always ride on the back seat properly