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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe these aren't the best years for you to be taking your male children to the pool. [b]Don't you have a husband?[/b][/quote]

[b]Not the OP but this is ridiculous - husband or not a 5 yo boy should be able to use the women's locker with his mother[/b].  I take my 4.5 yo to swim lessons and my husband rarely comes.  I don't want to wait for ONE family/handicapped changing room nor tie it up when there are people who really need it.[/quote]

I"m not the PP you quoted, but I disagree.   If a trusted adult male is available to take the boy into the men's room, they should do that.   [b]I find it really weird when older boys go into the women's room with their moms while Dad waits outside.  [/b] I say this as a mother of 4 sons, whose husband was in the military when they were growing up and deployed often.   When I was out alone with my boys, and there was a "family room" option, I always used it.

So yes, OP, if there is a family room available, seek it out.[/quote]

Ah, the ubiquitous DCUM straw man.  PP, how often does this really happen?  [/quote]

I have no idea how often it happens, but it DOES happen  because I have seen it.   A few months ago I was in Disney World in a women's restroom (in that same Pavilion of Epcot where "Soarin' is) and no kidding, a mom had two boys that appeared to be about 15 and 12!    When I saw them outside the restroom, they met up with a large group that appeared to be family members that consisted of several adult males (I'm assuming at least one was the boys' dad-plus maybe a grandpa and a couple uncles.)    Really?  None of those adult males could be trusted to bring the teens into the mens room?  And really, the teens could have gone in the mens' room on their own.[/quote]

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