{"id":6877,"date":"2026-06-11T12:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:45:41","slug":"us-airlines-declare-war-on-fathers-with-teen-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2026\/06\/11\/us-airlines-declare-war-on-fathers-with-teen-children\/","title":{"rendered":"US Airlines hassle some fathers with children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This seems to happen a lot: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetravel.com\/delta-air-lines-reporting-policy-questioned-after-flight-attendant-called-police-on-passenger-for-crying-child\/\">Delta Air Lines&#8217; &#8220;Reporting Policy&#8221; Questioned After Flight Attendant Called Police On Passenger For Crying Child<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being a guy is scary, just as being a racial minority can be scary. We&#8217;ve seen this in other news reports of a man stopping to assist a lost or hurt child, and then third parties quickly accusing them of doing something bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the sample news reports, below, a common theme is either a man traveling with children, especially if adopted children or of a different race or bi-racial. Airlines flag them as &#8220;human trafficking&#8221; suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/01\/16\/phoenix-couple-suing-american-airlines-accused-trafficking-his-wife-racial-profiling\/\">Phoenix couple suing American Airlines, accused of trafficking his wife, racial profiling<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/state\/north-carolina\/article234770802.html\">Frontier falsely accused NC man of trafficking adopted son: suit | Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/florida-boynton-beach-man-files-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-south-carolina-county\/70715882\">Florida man files federal civil rights lawsuit against South Carolina county<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/scott-taylor-lawsuit-rcmp-1.7617144\">Man wrongly linked to child sex ring sues RCMP for &#8216;tunnel vision&#8217; during investigation | CBC News<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/black-musician-accused-of-trafficking-his-own-children-aboard-american-airlines-flight\/\">Black musician says he was falsely accused of trafficking his own children aboard American Airlines flight &#8211; CBS Los Angeles<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/man-and-daughters-humiliated-at-airport-by-false-human-trafficking-allegation\/2922116\/\">Man and Daughters Humiliated at Airport by False Human Trafficking Allegation \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/elpais\/2017\/04\/19\/inenglish\/1492600802_662531.html\">United Airlines scandals: Mexican man falsely accused of trafficking daughter on United flight | Economy and Business | EL PA\u00cdS English<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liveandletsfly.com\/child-trafficking-american-airlines\/\">American Airlines Apologizes For False Accusation Of Child Trafficking &#8211; Live and Let&#8217;s Fly<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/cobb-county\/video-shows-fla-man-falsely-accused-being-sexual-predator-while-visiting-daughter-cobb-county\/VXGUDFYE3VHZTP3PWLVWOPAL6I\/\">Man falsely accused of being sexual predator while visiting daughter in Cobb County, video shows \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2 &#8211; Atlanta<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/19\/us-news\/virginia-dad-accused-of-human-trafficking-on-southwest-flight-demands-an-apology\/\">Virginia dad falsely accused of trafficking his own daughter on a Southwest flight demands an apology<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only example I found where a woman was falsely accused of human trafficking by an airline:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/white-mom-with-black-daughter-accused-of-human-trafficking-on-southwest-airlines-on-flight\/2749351\/\">White Mom With Black Daughter Accused of Human Trafficking on Southwest Airlines Flight \u2013 NBC Los Angeles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The airlines have a high &#8220;false positive rate&#8221; &#8211; and they don&#8217;t care. Dads get publicly humiliated (the perp walk, interrogation in public areas in the air terminal) &#8211; but the airline never makes a public apology, and often makes no apology. If lucky, they offer a private voucher for future travel and that&#8217;s it. The airline should be required to issue a public apology and press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the above has not happened to us, I have concerns it could happen to one of our family members (son&#8217;s wife is Asian ancestry and they have 2 kids).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago, when my youngest daughter was still in high school, the two of us drove to Canada to attend an airshow. It occurred to me that as a Dad traveling with a teen, I was potentially suspect, even though we both had passports. I believe that was the trip where upon re-entry to the U.S., they decided to thoroughly search our car, for no reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline staff have falsely accused fathers of human trafficking based on zero evidence other than they are male and have one or more children, always a girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6885,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}