A woman who refused to let a 6-year-old boy go to the women’s bathroom was scolded and hurt the child’s soul, causing heated discussions: speed up the promotion of the third bathroom
On January 30, Harbin, Heilongjiang. In the women’s toilet of a subway station, a woman found a boy standing in it, so she said to the child: This is the women’s toilet, and boys cannot come in.
Later, the child’s parents said that the woman had hurt the child’s heart, blocked the woman and demanded an apology, and the two sides quarreled fiercely in the toilet.
Similar things have happened many times before, and they have aroused heated discussions among netizens, and everyone’s opinions are also different.
Netizens who think it’s okay said that there’s no need to care so much about how old you are, and if you were the parent of a child, you would do the same.
Another netizen said that at the age of 6, if it is not a special child, I think mother can wait outside the toilet for the child to go to the men’s toilet by himself.
Compared with children, this mother of a 6-year-old child is the most complained by netizens. Yang Jian, director of the Child Development Research Center of Wuhan University, said that young children have the ability to identify males and females from an early age. The age of 3 to 6 is a critical period for children to determine their gender roles. Parents should guide them correctly. This controversy also reflects the imminent need to popularize the “third bathroom”.
What is a third bathroom? It is a toilet specially set up in the toilet for people with behavioral disabilities or relatives (especially the opposite sex) who cannot take care of themselves with assistance. “This concept is proposed to solve the problem of toilet inconvenience for some special objects (family members of different genders go out together, and one of them cannot take care of themselves), mainly referring to children assisting old parents, parents assisting children, etc.
The National Tourism Administration pointed out in the “Notice” before that the construction of the third toilet will help solve the toilet needs of special groups of tourists, help improve tourism public service facilities, and help reflect the humanistic care of the “toilet revolution”.
