Wow, I had no idea what I was starting!
I'm a little shocked by how nasty some people are.
For the record, my friend is not an over-protective mom by any stretch of the imagination. I suppose if she was, she wouldn't have let me take her 8 year old daughter (last year) and now her 7 year old son to Disney World without her. She hasn't burdened me with a list of demands or even suggestions. And while we called home every single night, that was MY idea, not mom's (or goddaughter's either...). This is the one and only thing she's asked of me.
Now for a little sane perspective. My godson is currently 6 - he'll be 7 when we go. He'll only be in the 1st grade, and he's not very sophisticated for his age. He's never been to an amusement park before - or many places more crowded than a small town store. It's not even that mom is so worried that some pervert will mess with him and he won't know how to respond. It's also that she worries he'll wander off if he's outside waiting for me to go to the women's room. And since she's never been to Disney, she doesn't even realize that many of the restrooms have more than one exit.
Mom insists that he is very well behaved in the women's restroom, does not run around or peek in stalls, and is actually better behaved than his older sister (who had a wierd issue with those self-flushing toilets last year - what's up with that anyway?)
And I am not going to take someone else's son into a stall or a companion bathroom with me.
I was a little unsure about this, since I'm not a mom myself and hadn't really thought about the subject. But after this nonsensical blathering about overprotective mothers supposedly thinking all men are perverts, I'm getting more than a little ticked off. I'm very sorry if you think a mother and godmother worrying about a 7 year old wandering off is hysterically overprotective. You'll just have to deal with that yourself, because I frankly don't care.
OP, I do think the majority of people here agree that it's fine to take a 7 year old into the ladies room - it's those who think it's fine to bring in older children that some of us disagree with.