Yes, I keep seeing this going on very frequently. But I have gotten my relatives to also refuse to hand over ID for young kids when dealing with the TSA TDC, even for international flights from terminals with only international flights.

There is a lot of nonsense coming from airlines, airport security screeners and even passport control types being done in the name of anti-child-trafficking initiatives. Just a couple of days ago, I had to school the German police and LH airline rep that there is no German law or relevant airline COC requirement for a parent to transit Germany internationally with their own child in the accompaniment of the other parent(s) and/or with some easily-faked authorization letter from the other parent(s). Same goes for TSA asking for ID from children, I’ll help to try to school the TSA in what is not required. Same goes for TSA trying to engage in conversation with young children who know about “stranger-danger” and have a much higher innate ability to tell who is good and who is not than the average adult.