‘Left lunacy’

But not everyone sees this approach as practical or necessary, and critics argue that infants are far too young to understand the concept of consent.

Rowan Dean, editor of The Spectator Australia said the idea of asking a baby’s permission to change their nappy is “lefty lunacy.”

And John Rosemond – a psychologist, columnist and parenting expert – writes that Carson wins the title of “the Weird and Even Weirder for the Most Bizarre Idea of All Time.”

“Once upon a time, and not all that long ago, a person who proposed that parents should ask infants for consent to change their diapers would be regarded by everyone except herself as deranged,” Rosemond writes in the Reno Gazette Journal. “In this paradoxical fashion, Carson’s ‘culture of consent’ becomes instead a family culture of confusion, mistrust, denial and all-around dysfunction.”

Online, Carson’s remarks set off a firestorm of conversations, with many on social media mocking her ideas and criticizing her credentials.