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So what does the San Pedro, California, dad do? He uses the women's bathroom -- his daughters are too young to go alone -- and is armed with a plan for being respectful and making it work.

\"I try to be as respectful to women as I can while doing so which consists of knocking on the door before entering and announcing myself,\" Nitoto wrote. \"Making sure if someone is inside that they know I am a Dad coming in with his daughter and making sure they are comfortable with that. Now once inside our stall I still am aware of the door and whenever I hear it open and someone new is coming in I announce myself again and make sure they know I'm inside with my child so that they aren't surprised.\"

Nitoto told \"Good Morning America\" he posted about his experience to \"spark the conversation for active fathers in the world.\" He wanted to \"show support to other fathers who have been or will be in the same situation and offer them [my solution].\"

Not everyone agrees with a dad using the women's restroom, though. Dr. Alice Domar told Parents.com it would be a \"last-resort choice.\"

\"First choice would be to find a family bathroom, which is becoming more common these days,\" she wrote. \"Second choice, up to age 4 or 5 would be for the dad to take her into the men’s room but go straight to a stall. After that, hopefully she would be able to go to a woman’s room by herself, but if not, he can wait outside the woman’s room until a motherly-looking woman goes in and he can ask her to look out for his daughter.\"

Nitoto noted that in his experience, women's bathrooms are much cleaner and are \"set up perfect just in case they have children.\"

Women with children have been the most supportive regarding his post, Nitoto said. \"Being a girl dad, I find myself having to navigate things that I don't have a book I can read from to help me with solutions,\" he told \"GMA.\" \"It's almost like the parenting story isn't shared in-depth from a father's side. That's why I started my Daddy Chronicles. I wanted to tell the dad's side of stories -- some that have been heard from the mom's side and some that haven't even been talked about before.\"

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