If a girl dad needs to take his daughter to the bathroom in public and there are no family bathrooms … I swear video online of a dad saying he uses the women’s bathroom but always knocks and announces ‘girl dad helping my daughter go to the bathroom’ and I love that idea and mens rooms are disgusting but wanted to see everyone’s thoughts
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Anyone who has an issue with this is a Karen and I will die on that hill.

I answered the question saying use men's bathroom but honestly I think that it's better if the dad goes in the woman so the daughter doesn't see everyone's penis if theyre using a urinal

I would’ve rather my dad taken me into the women’s bathroom than taking me into the men’s bathroom. It was a weird place for a little girl to be at. Of course he always made sure that there weren’t any other men in the bathroom. But it was the no stalls that was weird to me.

My husband takes our kids into the mens if he is alone. Otherwise we tag team, or I take both with me into the women's.

My oh used to take my daughter into the men’s. I’ve actually asked him to take her before if we’ve been somewhere like the theatre due to the queues in the women’s.

Certainly knock & say girl dad coming in with daughter to help her. I would be fine with that announcement for sure.

Women’s restroom is more private.
A little girl doesn’t need to walk in to a men’s room and see a bunch of grown men using the urinals. Most kids who do need help are only waist high.. I would rather see a man in the women’s restroom, helping his daughter rather than seeing a little girl walk out of the men’s restroom. Protect their innocence for as long as possible.

Public men's bathroom sadly is usually dirty and I won't want my daughter to be using this just because she is accompanied by her dad.

When it's multi stall, my husband usually goes into the mens bathroom. The line is shorter, they always have soap, and he knows not to let her touch anything in a bathroom. But I would never mind a guy bringing his girl into the women's bathroom. He's teaching her something she'll do on her own one day.
In my state, it's most common for bathrooms to be single-stall at restaurants and often non gendered when they're single stall so they're all equally clean.

Most men’s restrooms don’t have changing stations. Use the women’s.

Omg I never considered this scenario before! Thanks for shedding light on this, but definitely would want my husband to go in women’s bathroom and as everyone else said to knock and state the clear announcement before proceeding in 💯

Every time this question comes up, people say "well I wouldn't mind if a dad came in!" which is great. But it only takes one woman to have a problem with it and complain. I don't expect my husband to take the risk of being labelled a creep or using his daughter as an excuse to creep in the ladies; room. He actually did have a woman yell at him already for using the family bathroom to change our daughter while she was breastfeeding.
I wouldn't care if a dad came into the women's room but honestly I've never once seen it happen in real life. I tell my husband to take our daughter wherever he feels comfortable because I know she is always safe with him. Anyone who so much as looks at her funny is going to find themselves shoved through a wall, Wile E. Coyote style.

My husband asked me this question recently. I told him I’d rather he ask another woman to go in and check, or announce himself and ask if it’s ok to come into the women’s room than take her in the men’s room

My husband always takes her in the men’s. I’m always surprised by these polls because I often see dads taking girls to the men’s but have never seen a man taking a girl in the ladies apart from once when one of my male friends was out with us in a pub garden and the only baby change was in the women’s so one of the girls went with him to make sure no one got upset whilst he was by in there changing his baby.

It's whatever the man & girl are most comfortable with. I would never tell my partner what he can and can't do in regards to this issue. Just like I hope he would respect my choices when I am with our son. At the moment we go into womens rooms, disabled toilets or parents rooms (he is 4 and autistic so I sometimes have a pram) but as he gets older and develops a preference then I may take him into the mens. I saw a dad take his daughter into the mens the other day. It's not an issue.
I have never had a man bring his child into the womens bathroom. I wouldn't care, personally.
The fact we don't care about that but do care about transwomen, who we wouldn't even know where trans is wild.
Men don't fling their penis's around at urinals by the way or at least this was my experience the one time I peed in a mens room & my partner having used mens rooms forever. He has never seen another mans penis.
If anyone sees anything, my guess is it's because they are looking.

My spouse brings my daughter into the men’s room but he doesn’t like doing it.
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