An incident in which two women locked a two-year-old girl in an airplane toilet has sparked an online debate in China about how to care for children in public spaces.
The event went viral after one of the two women, Gu Tingting, posted a video of herself carrying the little girl into the cabin.
In the post, she wanted to show how she helps others, but she encountered a series of negative reactions.
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The airline later said the girl was taken with her grandmother's permission.
The incident occurred on August 24 during a flight from the southwestern city of Guiyang to Shanghai.
The child, who was traveling with his grandmother, started crying during the flight.
The airline said the day after the flight that the girl's grandmother had agreed to let the two women take her to the bathroom.
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A video posted by Gu on social media shows another woman telling the girl that she can only leave the toilet cubicle if she stops crying.
Local media reported that the girl was one year old, but the airline did not confirm this information.
Immediately after the video was released, criticism followed, with many slamming Gu for a lack of empathy and "scaring a child."
Responding to the comments, Gu said that she "prefers to help rather than be a nuisance".
"I just wanted to calm the child down and help others rest," she wrote on Douinu (Douyinu), Chinese version TikTok.
She added that many passengers "moved to the back of the plane to escape the noise," while others stuffed paper tissues into their ears.
Since then, her account has been private.
"Children cannot control their emotions when they are one or two years old. What's wrong with crying? Didn't you cry too when you were little?" wrote one user of the social network Veibu (Weibou).
In China, a debate has started on how to help spoiled children who scream or create disturbances in public space, and are called "bear children".
The word bear suggests that some Chinese people think that children can behave savagely.
And some trains have special carriages for children.
There are different opinions on this topic around the world.
For example, in South Korea there are hundreds of zones in restaurants, museums and theaters where children are not allowed.
As this country struggles with a low birth rate, MPs have called on the government to remove them, citing the need to create a more child-friendly society.
World airlines, including the Turkish-Dutch carrier Corundum Erlejns and Singaporean Effect, introduced the option for passengers to pay more to be accommodated in child-free zones.
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