Rach, where in Europe are you, just out of curiosity? I'm in Germany and I'm afraid my experience has been quite the opposite, especially when I lived in Munich, a city not known for being very child-friendly. I remember when I was heavily pregnant with my second child, struggling with a toddler in a buggy onto a bus crowded with young uni students. Not a one offered to help, not a one offered me a seat. They just blithely ignored me. Older people seem more willing to help, but the young and childless really couldn't care less, it seems.