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> If any airline ever proposes something like that, the backlash will be swift and massive.

This is true. But it's not a condemnation of my position: if anything, it supports my level of frustration with the status quo.

Children are necessary and must be loved. At the same time, they (usually) don't need to be on airplanes if they can't be stopped from wailing for 9 straight hours (not an exaggeration- that's what happened on my Frankfurt flight).

There are medical flights and dying relatives and migrations and so on that are unavoidable. I was the wailing child on such a flight once, the pressure killing my ears. But that flight was entirely unavoidable.

And here's what you don't seem to get: people like me accept all of it if the parent is making any effort to stop it or console/distract the child, which is what my parents spent the flight doing.

Instead, we look at the parent sitting on their phone with earphones in while the kid is wailing next to them and curse society for normalizing this.