These viral photos prove dads need changing tables, too
"Clearly we do this often because look how comfortable my son is," Donte Palmer wrote in his caption. "It's routine to him!!!! Let's fix this problem!"
Taking your baby out in public is good for parents and little ones, and means you’ll be changing your baby’s diaper while away from home. It’s not unreasonable for parents to expect that family-friendly spaces will have a changing table available, but all too often, one segment of parents finds there’s no table they can access. Dads are calling for more changing tables in men’s rooms. Father of three Donte Palmer is the latest dad to call attention to the issue through a now viral Instagram post. The photo (snapped by Palmer’s older son) shows the proud dad balancing in squat in a restaurant restroom stall, trying to change his 1-year-old son’s diaper on his lap because there was no changing table available. “Clearly we do this often because look how comfortable my son is,” he wrote in his caption. “It’s routine to him!!!! Let’s fix this problem!”
“It’s 2018; dads change diapers,” Webb told CBC News . The stats back these dads up. Today’s fathers spend three times as much time with their children as men did two generations ago, and they are changing a lot more diapers, too. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they’d never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%, and that’s great, because research indicates that when dads dress, diaper and bathe their babies, the father-child relationship grows stronger. Dads like Palmer, Mau and Webb are bonding with their babies while they change diapers, and they need changing tables to do it, and yet, it seems many businesses and internet commenters feel they don’t. Palmer told Yahoo Lifestyle that some have questioned why his wife couldn’t just change the diaper in the women’s restroom. “People have commented that my wife is ‘lazy’ for not changing our baby’s diaper or that I could have changed him in the car but why should I?” he explains. The world needs to learn what this father of three already knows: It’s not always mama’s turn to change the diaper. Here’s too all the dads like Palmer who go to extremes to change a diaper. We see you. ?Have a change table in them. Getting out the house with my 1 year old and going for lunch shouldn’t mean that I hav… https://t.co/gsFPPQPxUM
— Chris Webb (@Crippit) 1533313915.0
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