On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Alia Atlas <akatlas(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
There are certainly conferences that help by providing information about
chlidcare (frequently available through the hotel or such) or even
organizing joint childcare. Strangely enough, that helps increase the
participation of those with young children and childcare responsibilities
(frequently women). I am not requesting that the IAOC do so - though
certainly gathering information about childcare one time for use by many
would be helpful.
TBH, this seems much more generally useful to me than optimizing for the
case of bringing the family along as support for the same thing, which
seems like a fairly heavy lift for many likely IETF participants in
comparison.
The case of a nursing adoptive mother seems like a real corner case in the
sense that I am not aware of any countries the IETF is likely to ever go to
that would not recognize the nursing mother's parental rights.