Women Scare The Piss Out Of Him

[telecom_goddess]

I'm grateful that I had daughters. No gender issues, and it was rare that the fathers in question would take them in to the bathroom, if ever. So I just graduated from being in the stall with them to being outside the stall My middle daughter was entertaining as hell in the public restroom because she would sing the entire time she was in there

[greensinestro]

My daughter goes into the ladies room by herself and she has Down's Syndrome. I took her with me into the men's room until she was about five, and even by then, I was never comfortable with it. At times, if she takes too long, I try to find someone female to check on her as I do not wish to wind up on the sex offender list simply because I checked up on her. Usually, she does this by herself.

As for my son, I stand guard nearby being as someone said earlier, the pervs are lurking.

[EvilEmpryss]

I think the primary reason guys don't take their daughters into the men's room is the urinals: you don't have women flashing their junk in the open in the ladies' room because everything is don in the stalls.

And I've snagged men coming out of or going in to the men's room to check on my son and I've done the same for men asking about little girls in the ladies' room. Most people seem to be happy enough to help a parent out by checking on a kid.

[fireheart]

I've only ever heard/seen the term used to describe (gender-segregated) restrooms with changing tables built in to the wall o_O Different areas, different definitions, I suppose

My semi-local pool has a whole bank of these. Basically they resemble a bunch of handicapped toilet stalls stuck together, with a space in the middle for parents to change their kids diaper (whether it's actual change or from diaper to swim diaper) Some mothers/aunts/cousins/grandparents I've seen do take their daughters in with them to the ladies room though. As for the family stalls, they're also fenced off to contain their runaround kidlet.

My more local pool puts the "parent of opposite gender in bathroom/change room" cap at age 6.

[Seshat]

In the parts of Aussieland I've been, here's the 'family room' variations I'm aware of:

- combined handicapped/family toilet: larger stall, with room for a wheelchair & carer (for handicapped) or parents (for family). Entrance separate from but near the other toilet entrances.

- 'baby care room': toilet stall (or stalls), baby change tables, couch or couches for feeding. Usually the breastfeeding couches are separated from the toilet facilities by at least a half-wall, if not completely separated. Intended for parents of both genders, and the couches can be used by bottle feeding parents not just breastfeeders. Child-genitalia can be exposed, feeding breasts can be exposed, adult crotches should not be exposed outside the stalls.
Usually only really large shopping centres have this much available, but I'm sure it's appreciated.

- Smaller family toilets: just the change table and stalls and enough space for the family.

- Sometimes there's a more public, but still 'out of the main path' set of seats for child-feeding; a kind of nook accessed by the same corridor as the toilet corridor. Probably where the public phones used to be, when they were still profitable.