[Tammy8]

I cannot understand why they don't have one or two adults only rooms

That would be a great solution, and the restaurants should have the space to make that work since most had smoking areas and now don't. Seperate the adults that want to enjoy a quiet meal from families that have children that likely won't be so quiet and not always well-behaved.

[mylife]

Funny. They used to have separate eating for blacks.

Now we are so enlightened, we have separate eating for smokers/nonsmokers and want separate locations for kids/adults

[Puddleglum]

I have three kids and more and more it looks like restaurants have family areas because when I look around we are seated amongst other folks with kids, and the oldsters and the single-and-lovin-it courting lovebirds and the gals having a dinner salad and glass of wine or three are on the other side of the room. Fine with me.

My kids are well-behaved. If a screaming nuisance was at the next table I would ask the waiter to move us and if he could not, I would leave. No need to be an a-hole over a plate of bland pasta.

PS - too many crusty old (and old at heart) people look down on "breeders" and inaccurately believe they were litle angels when they were young. There's a special circle of Olive Garden reserved for folks like that.