Parents traveling with small children can bring small gifts for their fellow passengers, as a pre-emptive move to fend off criticism from people like me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/up...goody-bag.html
This is an unusually amateurish piece for the New York Times - some hack throwing around "signaling" and "social capital" as a teenager would to sound smart. Then he writes, in reference to the idea of child-free zones:
It surprises me that airlines have missed such an obvious profit-making opportunity.