That Puxton Park don't allow single adults in case they are pedophiles?

[LittleBairn]

I am really shocked by this story I know its the daily Wail
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2828413/Theme-park-bans-single-adults-paedophile-fears-bird-enthusiast-grandfather-told-t-watch-falconry-display.html

So a Single Adult can't go visit the falconry display incase they are a pedophile and the park is openly justifying their stance. Disgusting.
Our pedophile paranoia is getting out of control.

I can't believe this sort of thing is happening and it's passed me by! Once upon a time (pre dc admittedly) I liked being around dc playing outdoors. There's something quite special about children having fun when it's sunny and you have all the time in the world. I'd often sit in the park and study for college sunbathe. I find it terrifying that something as simple as that would be deemed predatory these days. Have we really gone that far?

News flash Puxton Park. Even people with children can also be paedophiles

Why is DH and I going to Disneyland weird, plenty for adults and kids. Some if the rides little kids woukd not be able to go on. We had a fantastic time.

Sadly, I bet this turns out to be great news for PP. Despite all the people here saying they're going to boycott, the publicity will mean they're extra busy over the next few weeks.

I read the reason for the ban was because the local mayor had recently been found guilty of child sex offences. He'd never visited the park but if you can't trust people in a civic role, who can you trust?

What a load of numpties.

Loads of places ban adults without children - cinema Saturday clubs, playgrounds, soft plays, children's section of libraries, Coram Fields. I've never seen one that restricts that policy to single adults though.

Actually, I've broken the rules in most of those places when I've been rendezvousing with friends or the DC. Turns out they are not normally well enforced if you give off strong "I am a normal female middle class mum here on legitimate mum business" vibes. Which is theoretically discriminatory, but in practice the vibes they're getting are completely correct.

Hang on I think i've been on MN too long, this has already been debated a year ago??

Either I'm imagining it or the DM are recycling their news

I live, of course pedophiles can be parents but is there a single example of a child being taken or harmed by someone on a day out with their own young family? The policy is abhorrent but you can't argue that it doesn't protect children because it does. Albeit from a minute risk and un a disproportionate way.

Thats ridiculous I have a few single friends who go to zoos and other places on their own they are women I think that ban really means men on their own doesn't it?

I started reading your post, Chipping, and really did think that you were the looniest of the loons choosing to go to soft play on your own!!

I asked dh about this, being a man and all, and he said that of course it depends on the place, but probably a paedophile is not going to want to queue up and pay the entrance fee to somewhere like an amusement park when if someone that way inclined wanted to observe children they could go to a municipal park or a beach for free.

(Btw those who put Disney parks in the same bracket should be dunked in a vat of cold sick. They have no idea .)

I often go the children's section of the library by myself. I'm getting out books!

It's not just the Daily Fail. I first read it on a FB update from Sunrise on Australia's Channel 7. They called it a park near London though.
The Puxton Park logo is weird. I read it as Putton Park.
They say all the local parks have the same policy. I have been to parks which say the attractions are aimed at children and my DS (then about 15) was warned that the rides at Gulliver's Land were for children, but it was more to do with the idea that he would be disappointed with the rides than that he might be up to no good. We were in a family party with the DGC and he accompanied them on some of the rides which they loved.

My cousin has mild SEN. He's 27 and adores theme parks. He lives independantly. Sometimes he'll go on his own to a local one, or sometimes a family member or two will go with him with their young children.

He just likes theme parks is all. I don't see why he should be banned because he may go as a single adult.

I also love Disney World in Florida although I'd prefer to go with someone rather than on my own!

LittleBairn yes I have been to Disneyland, Disneyworld and Eurodisney. Not sure what your point is? I didn't say they were only suitable for children, I said IMO it's an odd choice for a honeymoon

You can get married in Disneyworld; if in the Grand Floridian it costs $$$$$$$ I have seen a proposal in Animal Kingdom.

I would spent a million honeymoons in Epcot.

[Grrrr.... why do people persist in thinking Disneyworld is just roller coasters and Mickey Mouse?]

They don't get it Brenda I'd use any excuse to go to Disney World!

Why can't adults go alone into the children's section of the library? They are pretty closely supervised. My mum was a primary teacher and she often went in to borrow children's books to use at school. She is also a keen photographer and often goes to places like the zoo, park etc to take photos (not of people!). It would be ridiculous if she wasn't allowed to do these things.

I have just been for the tenth time (and for four of those without dcs )

I agree with the rule , the park is designed for young children there would be no legitimate reason for a single adult to go. There are other more suitable places for bird lovers.

I don't know if the library thing is true, but LadyIsabella posted that children's sections ban lone adults. One would hope they'd use their discretion and not throw out a woman on her hands and knees rifling through the Lady Grace Mysteries.

I would actively boycott anywhere that's stupid enough to have a policy like this on civil liberty grounds. Its hysterical and panders to stereotypes which are inaccurate.

This is just insane how is it legal?

I can't think of many places that it would be strange to go to without children....a school? soft play (but then why would anyone want to go to such a hellish place anyway)....I cant think of anywhere else.

youare I apologise I misunderstood your post.

The library thing is just as weird what harm is an adult in the kids section in plain view going to do? Plus a lot of libraries ban child from the library if they are alone.
A lot of adults read young adult books now a days.
One can only assume if you aren't allowed in freely you must be escorted by a librarian or the librarian retrieves the book.

Red This is my view too is pandering and completely ineffective too at protecting child so utterly pointless other than to point suspicion at single people.

I think the thing with children's libraries is not about mad toddler-abductors, but that they are genuinely a place where young teens and pre-teens who don't have anywhere else to go after school hang out unsupervised to do their homework. It's a place where you send your children when you can't be with them and you want them to be safe. The risk of them being befriended there by someone with evil intent is presumably small, but I can see why the local authority want to err on the side of paranoia.

The libraries I know either operate a more gentle "you are allowed in if you are with a child or choosing a book for a child" which gives an opening to allow challenge by a librarian of anyone they have suspicions about, or a more full on "you can only come in with a child, if you don't have a child but you want to get a book from the children's section please ask a librarian for assistance"