Originally Posted by
endrond
In retrospect, I think its a good policy: if there had been a crash, I would have been fully focused on my child, not on opening the window and enabling others to get out.
United bars pax in the exit row who have "limitations that would prohibit their assistance". Under that standard I didn't belong in an exit row.
A thousand times, this. Exit row passengers are responsible for the safety of the entire plane, not someone in their family three rows back. Happy you see why the FA did that.
OP should just place everyone and himself in E+.