A Christchurch pool has banned parents from changing their children in public, citing offence taken by some swimmers and concern about paedophiles photographing naked children. We asked readers what was an unacceptable age for children to be changed in public. Here are some of the responses:

Why not ban all men from public pools? And ban them from living within a 10km radius of primary schools.
Isn't this the hidden agenda for all these silly rules, that men are all evil and should be eliminated from the face of this world?
- Arnel de Guzman.

I think a good age to stop poolside changing would be around 8. There are a lot of factors to take into consideration, such as if a parent is watching other family members and it is the only way to do both things at the same time.
- Heather.

I feel so sad for our society that this mother gets treated so badly, when her children are probably safer getting changed at the pool-side than alone in the changing rooms. Our son is 7 and he is getting to the stage where he is a little self-conscious about getting changed in public.
But a bit of common sense is needed here. Older children just need a towel. That mother needed support, not judgment. She should be congratulated on having the kids involved in a healthy activity and not in front of the TV.

We need to get real.
- Arda van Kuyk.

We go to QEII in Christchurch, where they have family change rooms that are often taken by middle-aged, overly modest women, so I frequently have to take my 3 1/2-year-old and 18-month-old girls to the men's changing rooms.
As for changing at the poolside, I see it a lot at QEII. It just seems to be laziness on part of the latte-sipping parents who don't want to take their kids to the change rooms. The idiots at QEII don't like my wife breast-feeding at poolside but they let women wear white T-shirts in the pool. This is not PC stuff, just typical Kiwis wanting to do their own thing.
- Arni.

Are these women all idiots? I have children and I would never think of changing them in public with all the perverts and sickos around these days.
Yes, it is inconvenient to have to go into a change area but would this woman prefer some paedophile was looking at her child?
It is not 1950 any more. The statistics on child molestation, paedophilia and child pornography are so high these days, why would anybody risk it? Stop whinging and think about it for a minute.
- Stacey.

This is PC gone mad. Some small-fry manager is being a Hitler for no good reason. The maximum age for kids to get changed at the poolside should be about 6 or 7.
- Ron.

I live in Germany. As often as not adults change by the pools in the open and women are comfortable bathing topless. The kids tend to not wear bathing costumes. Most, if not all, swimming places have nudist sections.
New Zealand needs to get a bit more liberal. If we weren't so caught up with not showing too much nudity then possibly there would not be so much interest in the nudity itself.
- Matt Herriott.