Reply to What is required when child flying with only one parent?

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "What is required when child flying with only one parent?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The above is true, legally. But if your child is a different race than you, or mixed race, I think it's reasonable to be concerned about "well meaning" airline employees potentially asking you questions. I would bring documents with you as a backup. It's common enough to be a concern.

https://www.google.com/search?q=flight+attendants+report+mixed+race+families

[/quote]

My kids are adopted and a different race than me.  Internationally I certainly bring their documentation.  Domestically, I have never brought anything at all.  It's never been an issue for us, but more importantly if some ignorant TSA agent or flight attendant asked me for some documentation I would absolutely refuse to give it and ask to speak to their manager.  Call me a karen if you'd like, but I won't give up my children's right to travel domestically at will just like any other resident in the US just because their skin color doesn't match mine.[/quote]

Is it always ignorance though?  Flight attendants are supposed to be looking out for kids possibly being trafficked.[/quote]

Then perhaps flight attendants should be trained to look for actual signs of a child being trafficked rather than just skin color that doesn't match.  Because if that's what someone is going on then yes, they are ignorant.
If you actually care, here are some good ways to recognize when to be concerned.  (Note that a child and adult of different races living a boring life is not on the list)

https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/human-trafficking/recognizing-signs

https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/CST-Identification-Resource.pdf
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics