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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t want to be the “responsible” adult seated next to a random 7 year old who may have bathroom accident, motion sickness, or feel responsible in case of an emergency. Who wants that?[/quote]

Agreed but for some reason people have lost all reason on this issue and there are people who are downright *gleeful* about the idea of a family being forced to sit separately from their kids.

https://www.newsweek.com/passenger-refusing-give-seat-dad-child-viral-2012179

That story is especially infuriating because it's based on the Reddit post of the guy who refused to switch seats and no one spoke to the family. Much is made of the idea that the family should have booked their seats together ahead of time, and the Redditor who posted the story says there are several ways to book your seats without paying. But since no one knows the family in question, we have no idea what their situation was -- as the OP and other posters have noted, sometimes families get bumped to another flight at the last minute, or a family has to fly for an emergency reason and by the time they book, there are no seats together. But everyone in this article just assumes the family was too lazy to just book seats together like everyone else did. Likely there were extenuating circumstances.[/quote]

There is a strong anti-family streak in this country, which goes along with classic American individualism. It’s too bad that for many people, instead of thinking, “wow, airlines are making record profits while making the flying exponentially crappier for all involved,” they turn around and instead direct their anger at some family in a crap situation. They assume that the family must’ve just been “not responsible” or too cheap to buy tickets together, and then people pile on and delight in being superior. It’s pretty gross. [/quote]

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