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.

That's too much. I think it's quite adequate for the librarians to keep an eye out for anyone they have suspicions about. But a blanket ban on adults? I would be mortified if I were apprehended going into the children's section. And pretty angry, too.

But if a librarian sees someone who sets their hackles up, what are they then meant to do Brenda?Come up and say "I don't like the look of you, I think you're trying to groom thirteen year olds, please get out?" A blanket ban, (possibly selectively enforced) means that librarians don't have to have those discussions and you don't have to feel mortified because it's not about you.

It was me who mentioned the library thing upthread, not sure if I was the first. I'm not lying

There is a sign that says adults must be accompanied by a child, and one time I wanted to get a book for DD and she wasn't with me, I asked and they said fine.

It is definitely true, I may be a little strange but I'm not that bad that I'd make up something as boring as that!

Insane. My dh often goes to the library next to his work in his lunchbreak to get books out for the dcs. The idea that somebody might think a lone man is up to no good because he is in the kids section of the library, when he is actually choosing books for his bookworm dcs, makes me as well as furious.

My nearest library is very small, albeit on two floors. The ground floor has non-fiction and the counter where you check books in and out, and the lower ground floor is childrens and non-fiction, all in the one room and no staff are down there. I only read non-fiction, so I hope I won't have to be accompanied by a member of staff when choosing a book, to ensure that I don't look at - or interact with - any children. It's getting ridiculous.

Well is there a sign up in your library? If not then there's no problem. If there is, then simply ask if it's OK.

It doesn't feel like a very big deal to me.

Maybe they had trouble with people using the area to sit in for hours and taking up space for the parents - the kids bit is quite comfy.