Spectator Sport?

I apparently missed the vote, so can someone tell me when Labor and Delivery became a spectator sport?

I had a very nice family in labor today. For the most part, in our fairly quiet suburb, our patients are nice, normal people. Things were going along very nicely until the parents asked if their 14 year old son and their 5 year old daughter could stay in the room for the delivery. Now, I know that as nurses we're supposed to be supportive, non-judgemental, blah, blah, blah, but are you serious?! What normal, healthy young man wants to look up his Mother's swollen cooter without being scarred for life?! I can understand having young women... a good dose of reality could do wonders for birth control, but a 14 year old boy?!

I give them the routine answer... if there is an adult available to be solely responsible for just that child, then it's fine. Inside I'm thinking: WTF?! Needless to say Dad did not want to be responsible and when it came down to it, Dad was the only one who stayed. Thank-God for small mercies. Another child saved.