Where can I bring my baby? And where's the line on bad parenting?

In the third set at the recent U.S. Open, on her way to losing against the world number one, British tennis player Emma Raducanu finally said something.

“It’s been like ten minutes,” she complained to the umpire, gesturing to the crying baby in the crowd who was distracting her during her serve.

“It’s a child. Do you want me to send a child out of the stadium?” the umpire said. It was plainly a rhetorical question. But then spectators yelled out “Yes!” and Raducanu smiled and gestured as if to say, “Well, yeah.”

By taking this stand, Raducanu risked making herself into a viral villain, a young Karen in tennis shoes. But she was saved because so many people agreed with her.

The ump was right though. You can’t eject a baby. So the game went on, as did the crying. Raising the same issue i