Disabled parking and parental parking

[Lace Neil Singer]

I wonder... I go food shopping with my dad. Can my dad therefore park in a parent and child parking space?

[Seshat]

Disabled person chiming in here.

While I appreciate that pregnancy can generate disability, neither pregnancy nor child-rearing is inherently disabling. If the pregnancy does cause temporary disability, there are such things as temporary disability parking permits.

Also, pregnancy and child-rearing, in a world with good contraception, is generally a free choice. Disability is not. If you've chosen to be pregnant and have kids, you've done so in full knowledge that you'll be hauling yourself and/or your kids across the parking lot.

Few people choose to be disabled.

[DesignFox]

I agree with Seshat. I don't see why parents with kids get special privileges.

Yay, you reproduced. Suck it up and drag your kids through the lot like my parents did with me and my brother.

[blas87]

I may be a little insensitive here, but in my opinion, a struggling, disabled old person should be able to park closer than a pregnant woman or a woman with kids. A person with a wheelchair, cane or walker should be able to park closer.

Where I work, pregnant women can get temporary disabled placards and they can park right by the door.

If your pregnancy is that bad, get a temporary placard. Otherwise, you can park where everyone else does. Exercise is good for pregnant women and is always encouraged. Pregnancy is not a disability.

Of course, I am not a mother and never plan to be....I just get disgusted when I see pregnant 16 year olds parking closer to the door than disabled old people and people who use wheelchairs and such. It just makes me sick.

[Slytovhand]

You going to help?

Rapscallion

Ummm .... If I recall correctly, you're male.

And last time I looked... so was I....

so... what you're suggesting is either not going to happen, or is heading into areas my imagination tends not to go...


Slyt

[DesignFox]

Ummm .... If I recall correctly, you're male.

And last time I looked... so was I....

Slyt

What, you didn't see the story on Yahoo about the "pregnant male?"

(yes, I know "he" was biologically female, but had hormones to be made male...but...um...anyway....back on topic....)

[Rapscallion]

Medical science is a wonderful thing!

I'm going to be a daddy!

Rapscallion

[DesignFox]

Medical science is a wonderful thing!

I'm going to be a daddy!

Rapscallion

Can I have the rights to your made for TV movie?

[Rapscallion]

You'll have to ask mummy.

Rapscallion

[DesignFox]

You'll have to ask mummy.

Rapscallion

So...it's a zombie child, born out of a "male"? WOW. Who do I contact? That'd make a GREAT story.

[Dark-Star]

Special spots for the disabled are a noble thing and helpful thing. I have no problem with them, I can walk a block more to save a someone some effort because I can spare it a lot easier. (and the idiots who placed them in crummy spots ought to be properly embarrassed)

But...the 'stork parking' spots I'm starting to see absolutely steam me. They're trying to sell them as another flavor of disability parking, which is a 5-ton pile of Bovine Scatology.

[IDrinkaRum]

My daughter who has Autism is actually entitled to a disabled parking plate/placard/whatever I can get for her. I'm thinking of getting it for her as she's getting too big for the harness/leash & there are just times that I can only find a spot far away and she gets it into her mind to run.

Even when I was pregnant I very rarely used the Stork Parking, unless there were no other spots or I just didn't feel like walking a long way that day. Yes, I was lazy, but hey! I was lazy for two.