Although society has advanced and has assumed that fathers are as responsible for the care of their children as mothers, It seems incredible that at this point there are still no baby changing tables in most men's bathrooms.
Chris Mau is a father who shared on his Facebook profile a post in which he said he felt "sick" of having to change his daughter in a disgusting floor and demands that changing rooms are already installed in the men's bathrooms. And he is absolutely right. We join your request because enough is enough: they also change diapers!
Love that Matters picked up the story of this 33-year-old father of 4 children, the youngest of 8 months, who is who we see in the photo.
"I'm getting sick of having to change my daughter on a disgusting floor because the only table to change diapers in the place is in the women's bathroom. It's crazy to imagine, I know, but there are also boys who take care of their children .
If it is a public place with public restrooms in the generation of gender and race equality, what if we make sure that parents can change our children's diapers at a damn table like the mother's? Am I asking too much? "
Although in some places the public baths of men have changing rooms for babies, just like those of women, or there is a separate stay so that both mom and dad can change the baby, they are not the majority, much less. They still need more. There is a long way to go to reach equality in this regard. It is taken for granted that only mothers change diapers or it is assumed that when dad goes with his baby there is also a mother to change the diaper. And when do parents go alone with their baby?
It should be something regulated in all public places such as shopping centers, restaurants, museums, coffee shops, etc. New York passed a bill a few months ago that requires all men's public restrooms to have baby changing tables so that parents can also change their children in the best possible conditions.
Despite being a highly demanded change by some sectors, Spain does not currently have legal bases in this regard, so we depend on the "goodwill" of companies and public bodies when it comes to facilitating the issue of changing diapers to parents.
Bad conditions
Many times even, it must be said, there are also no changers in the bathrooms of women and we end up changing the baby in very bad conditions. In the best case we do it in the stroller, or above the sink, but this father has not seen another way out than to change the baby on the bathroom floor, something completely unhygienic.
We increase paternity leave and promote equality in childcare, but then there are no measures that support this change in mentality. However insignificant it may seem, baby changing tables in men's restrooms are an important step for equality, since changing diapers is not just a women's thing.
