More Public Places Are Designating Kid-Free Zones

[RamboLiberal]

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After listening to complaints for years, the town of Lake Forest took action this summer and designated 25 percent of its beach a kids-free zone, leaving the adults to sunbathe in peace and quiet.

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Although beaches have always been considered child-friendly destinations, experts say that nowadays children are being seen and heard in places that always seemed off limits -- theaters, fancy nail salons, first-class airplane cabins.

"I think that there has been a shift in terms of this generation of parents," said parenting expert Ann Pleshette Murphy. "Reality is, kids haven't changed that much, but they are being taken to places that, in my day in my childhood, we were never taken to. They are around a lot more."

So efforts to promote kid-free zones are gaining popularity.

The Wishbone restaurant in Chicago has an adults-only room, giving diners a break from the somewhat chaotic family side of the eatery.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmericanFamily/story?id=3374997&page=1

H'mmm, good idea? Up-scale restaurants maybe not a bad idea. I know many churches had crying rooms years ago .... don't know especially with their emphasis on families if they still do. I'm not anti-kid as some here but I do think their are parents who don't take in to consideration others in public places when their kids are running around, being loud or screaming or crying at the top of their lungs. And from the messes I've seen left behind I'd hate to be the poor restaurant person who has to clean up after them. Hell, on this it's not just the kids, there sure are piggy adults out there - and no insult to the 4-legged pigs.