Reply #25: People can no longer trust parents - that's the point.

[Daemonaquila]

You're right - at this point, people can't trust parents to manage their kids because so many parents can't be bothered. You want to make this a referendum about YOUR parenting when you say "you don't trust me to manage my kids." It's not. Business owners have no reason to believe your kids, specifically, are special snowflakes who won't create havoc, and they have no reason to assume that you, a stranger off the street with unknown kids in tow, aren't a nightmare waiting to happen. If that means that parents like you will only go to places that "want your business" like iHop or McDonald's, then that's fine with the rest of us. If responsible parents instead demanded accountability from other parents in public situations, the problem would never have gotten to the point that, as a society, we are deciding to ban kids (and therefore poor parents) from places where they are statistically likely to cause serious disruption.