What is wrong with parents who drag their hellspawn to nice restaurants?

Not sure what this has to do with LGBT but ok. I can relate because I go out to eat and yes we have kids running around and screaming and I have no idea why people do not stop this. My parents would never allow this of me if I was just a kid. Like you said this behavior was banned or else we would go home and get it. I see kids running around and screaming but then again the parents yell at them and tell them to come sit down. Still after a few short minutes they are back at it again with their running and screaming so it's like they do not even listen or care what their parents say to them. I have no idea what this world has come to but it's not like there is anything we can do except ignore them and make sure we raise our kids right so they do not follow in these footsteps.

I don't get it either, had the same experience once. My wife and I paid a baby sitter so we could go out and have a nice dinner at a decent Italian restaurant only to have a rowdy family of five sit at the table next to us during our main course. Even though my kids are very well behaved we never took them to a restaurant like this. With a little common sense you can tell what type of restaurant you should bring young kids into.

Whatever it is, it's what's wrong with the parents, not the poor kids. If you'll notice, Chinese families take kids of all ages to restaurants with them, all the time, and seem to enjoy their company, and interact with them happily--and there's never any spoiled or brattish behavior on the kids' part. And moreover, if you're a stranger who happens to be sitting next to a big, all-inclusive Chinese family in a Chinese restaurant, you'll find yourself laughing along with them and enjoying how cute the kids are. Same deal with French families, and with Italians--and with the latter, you're even likely to wind up with a stray toddler in your lap. The thing is, among civilized people, having meals together, particularly with adults, is how kids learn their manners. As an illustration of how exactly we Americans ought to do this, I recommend the example of Thomas Jefferson, who always had a brood of grandchildren breakfasting and dining with him at Monticello--and to the astonishment of visitors from abroad, "They were so well mannered that one hardly noticed them."

Parents have become insensitive to other people's comfort, they're spoiling their kids and just don't care about what they do. I guess many parents don't stop their kids from doing those things because they think if they do, kids will stop loving them, which is totally wrong. Over-permissive parents are rejected by their kids later in life because kids feel the were not paid enough attention during childhood. When you control and mold a child's behavior that child will grow with high self-esteem and will be grateful when he or she is older. It's a big mistake to think your kids will hate you for not letting them do certain things. I'll give an example: a teen is let to drink and smoke at an early age, later in life he discovers his life is a disaster from too much drinking and smoking. He'll blame his parents for not prohibiting him to drink and smoke. It may seem an extreme situation, but the same happens with not so extreme ones. I have two daughters who don't missbehave like that in restaurants, I don't let them do everything thay want, I don't buy them everything they want and I don't let them see everything they want to see on TV, but they don't hate me, on the contrary, we demonstrate our love very closely, they know I love them, we hug a lot and I play a lot with them. They know that what I do is for their own benefit and well being. Letting kids do everything they want to do turns out to be counterproductive, and that's what many "modern" parents ignore.