This is a tough one....

First thought is : "Well, it's his kids.. fair enough"..

Second thought (the evil one...) is:

"Well, you can avoid "abandoning" them by.... I dunno.. NOT using the lounge?"

I wouldn't think to try to guest in more than one other person.. The rules are after all pretty clear there... even though I travel occasionally with MORE than one no-status companion... and would like to bring them all into the lounge naturally....

I'm sure I'd get no sympathy if I wanted to do that as a matter of course... (or even once for that matter!) yet folks with kids.. (and not toddlers/infants which I see as a different case entirely) seem to see it as an entitlement of some sort?

Hmmmm......... not sure what to think on that'un.... Shouldn't folks buy Annual guest passes or something? (Maybe a cut rate version of those - for kids - should be available??)

I suspect I'd only see it as at all important if the lounges suddenly filled with large families!!

After all.. if two "extras" who are teenagers is "OK"... then how about.. 3? or 5?

I know a guy with 7 kids all under 18 () .. how about him?