Pubs 'should ban kids' as adults need spaces for 'relaxation' without children

After 2 Kent landlords sparked contention with their determination to prohibition children from their pub, we asked you whether kids should beryllium allowed successful pubs?

Two landlords grabbed headlines earlier this week aft taking the arguable determination to prohibition children nether the property of 14 from their drinking establishment, truthful we asked you, should kids beryllium banned from pubs?

Mandy Keefe and John Forge reopened their recently refurbished Kent pub, The Wheel Inn, nether the caller rules past week, provoking disapproval from locals who labelled the no-kids argumentation 'archaic'.

The brace defended their decision, stating that they hoped to make an adult-only abstraction wherever customers didn't request to 'watch their language'. Mr Forge said "We're getting older radical saying, 'Brilliant, we don't privation bloody kids moving about.' We get radical really lasting astatine the barroom saying, 'This is large due to the fact that we don't person to worry.'

"You're drinking - you're taking a ineligible drug. You're then, astatine times, behaving inappropriately. Customers person said it's superb due to the fact that they don't person to ticker precisely what they're saying."

However, portion Ms Keefe and Mr Forge claimed to person received affirmative feedback successful person, 1 mum section to the country slammed the determination online: "It volition delight a precise tiny demographic, unluckily not the aboriginal one.

"Even erstwhile my kids travel 'of age', I don't get the content they'll beryllium welcomed with unfastened arms. It's archaic and conscionable a shame much than anything. We're gutted arsenic we were looking guardant to getting to cognize radical successful the village."

After we asked Mirror readers should kids should beryllium banned from pubs? 3,051 overwhelmingly said yes, portion conscionable 497 said no. However, the yes voters were divided implicit the grade to which kids should beryllium banned, with 1,399 calling for a broad ban, 1,112 wanting the prohibition lone aft a definite clip and 540 lone wanting kids to let kids implicit 14 to participate the premises.

What Mirror readers deliberation from 'pubs are for grown ups' to 'how tin we amended our children connected intoxicant if we ne'er exposure them'

Many readers commented connected our archetypal story, here's a snapshot of what immoderate of you had to say:

Iron57 said: "Adults should perfectly beryllium allowed their ain space. While everyone’s children are wonderful, it’s perfectly earthy for adults to privation to bask the institution of different adults successful a grownup environment.

"Upon reaching the property of 14, being allowed into a pub was portion of our close of transition into adulthood. I’d similar to spot that returned."

Sailorsgirl wrote: "This is wherefore truthful galore enactment home, the pub which was the backbone of a moving mans life, was taken and fixed to parents with kids, one person ne'er understood wherefore determination could not of been country for both. The breweries backed the incorrect equine , kids successful pubs changed the reasons to person a nighttime out, So this happening is not excessively soon. The quicker onshore lords travel suit the better."

LucyRoberts77 said: "Personally I similar that children are not allowed successful pubs. Unless the pub serves nutrient and past lone until 7.00pm.

"We similar to spell for a quiescent portion and not going into a pub that's turned into a playground. We utilized to spell successful a definite pub it wasn't truthful overmuch arsenic the children but the parents connection erstwhile the children were there. Sometimes moving circular and parents wholly ignoring them."

On the different hand, ConLew wrote: "How tin we amended our children to dainty intoxicant with attraction if we ne'er exposure them to it? It becomes the happening to bash arsenic a dare."

While DaysyFields said: "No request to prohibition them, arsenic agelong arsenic determination are children's rooms."

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