However if the kids are there to have a meal with the parents and well behaved I can see reason but in my experience kids get bored in pub (when not allowed to run around) and trouble or tantrums usual follow.
You've hit the nail on the head there. This may be the most sensible thing written yet on this thread.
Even the best behaved children have a limited attention span and are forced out of sheer boredom to make their own entertainment (by running around etc) if you detain them in a pub for more than an hour or so.
Much as you might wish to, you simply can't keep living the same life as a parent as you did before, spending the afternoon in the pub with your partner and / or friends as if the children aren't with you and needing either to be kept entertained or allowed to play.
It's not fair on the children and not fair on other customers to spend so long in the pub that the children get bored stiff and have to get up and find some fun.
No-one reasonable minds the presence of children per se, but this indignant insistence that those of us (some of whom are parents ourselves) who have a problem with the sort of poor parenting in evidence from time to time around the area are somehow deviant really grates.
This type of behaviour invariably seems to be from the middle class / 'professional' set with improbably-named offspring who no doubt frown all the more severely in their turn on the parenting of others, smugly considering themselves superior because they feed their own organic veg and cloth them more expensively or whatever.
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