Men’s Bathrooms In U.S. Will Now Require Baby Changing Stations After Obama Signs Babies Act
Parenting is a tough job. Both dads and moms have their difficulties doing it. However, one of them – changing the child – is about to get a lot better. On the 7th of October, President Obama signed the Babies Act (H.R.5147). This bill requires female AND male bathrooms in public buildings to be equipped with baby changing facilities.
Congressman David N. Cicilline was the one who introduced the bill earlier this year. “Government needs to do more to ensure that public buildings are family-friendly,” he said. “No mom or dad should ever have to worry about finding a safe, sanitary place to change their baby.”
Babies Act describes “changing facilities” as “a table or other device suitable for changing the diaper of a child age 3 or under”. These facilities also have to be “physically safe, sanitary, and appropriate.”
The beauty of the bill is that it not only provides more changing stations, but makes them available for mothers and fathers.
(h/t: the huffington post)
President Obama signed the Babies Act, introduced by Congressman David Cicilline
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This bill requires baby changing facilities in both female and male bathrooms in public buildings
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“No mom or dad should ever have to worry about finding a safe, sanitary place to change their baby,” Cicilline said
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it's stupid when you need a LAW to just applying common sense
i'd like to live in such society where any business owner will think of handicapped and parents with children, just because it's humane, even if it means extra expanses
In most newer and bigger buildings in Seoul, there is a third bathroom for the disabled. Sometimes the third bathroom is labeled as "family bathroom", which includes disabled, parents (regardless of gender) with children (not only babies), and sometimes you can see also a separate additional bathroom for the disabled for both men and women, making it four kinds of bathrooms in a public place. And people here really basically don't use these "specialised" bathrooms if they're just ordinary healthy (more or less) men and women because that's the culture here. They might go "cheating", though, if they are running short with time.
To continue on my comment, it is also true, though, that still so many places in Korea only have the sign of availability for changing diapers appearing only in females' toilettes.... Change takes time...
Yeah this should've been done a long time ago. I'm not so sure about the safe and sanitary part though. It is a public restroom after all.
You've no idea how much this helps -Proud uncle filling in for dad who walked out
I agree with Kjorn but sad fact is it's true. We need that in Canada... we need that globally.
i remember a Ikea in Boucherville (South of Montréal) where they even put diapers for those who doesn't have one. it was brilliant!
it's stupid when you need a LAW to just applying common sense
i'd like to live in such society where any business owner will think of handicapped and parents with children, just because it's humane, even if it means extra expanses
In most newer and bigger buildings in Seoul, there is a third bathroom for the disabled. Sometimes the third bathroom is labeled as "family bathroom", which includes disabled, parents (regardless of gender) with children (not only babies), and sometimes you can see also a separate additional bathroom for the disabled for both men and women, making it four kinds of bathrooms in a public place. And people here really basically don't use these "specialised" bathrooms if they're just ordinary healthy (more or less) men and women because that's the culture here. They might go "cheating", though, if they are running short with time.
To continue on my comment, it is also true, though, that still so many places in Korea only have the sign of availability for changing diapers appearing only in females' toilettes.... Change takes time...
Yeah this should've been done a long time ago. I'm not so sure about the safe and sanitary part though. It is a public restroom after all.
You've no idea how much this helps -Proud uncle filling in for dad who walked out
I agree with Kjorn but sad fact is it's true. We need that in Canada... we need that globally.
i remember a Ikea in Boucherville (South of Montréal) where they even put diapers for those who doesn't have one. it was brilliant!