Interesting; perhaps US Worldcons might want to emphasize child-friendliness?
I wondered why Dragoncon doesn't offer child care. After all, my experience from Eastercons and UK Worldcons is that if you offer child care then the number of children for whom it will be used will be about 1% of the convention membership. If that scaled to Dragoncon, you would expect 500-600 children.
Yet this article suggests that Dragoncon stopped offering child care because of a lack of use. Edit to add: But of course if you make a convention awkward to attend with children in other ways, child care demand will fall off anyway.)
Mind you, I find the tone of that article rather odd; I get more than a whiff of the author somewhat resenting the presence of toddlers at conventions and/or seeing cons as an opportunity for a fun holiday without them.
Something that occurs to me is that there might be difficult legal complications with running child care in the US (or specific states), but I'd have to bow to local knowledge on this.
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I wondered why Dragoncon doesn't offer child care. After all, my experience from Eastercons and UK Worldcons is that if you offer child care then the number of children for whom it will be used will be about 1% of the convention membership. If that scaled to Dragoncon, you would expect 500-600 children.
Yet this article suggests that Dragoncon stopped offering child care because of a lack of use. Edit to add: But of course if you make a convention awkward to attend with children in other ways, child care demand will fall off anyway.)
Mind you, I find the tone of that article rather odd; I get more than a whiff of the author somewhat resenting the presence of toddlers at conventions and/or seeing cons as an opportunity for a fun holiday without them.
Something that occurs to me is that there might be difficult legal complications with running child care in the US (or specific states), but I'd have to bow to local knowledge on this.