An e-mail:

As someone who has lived in major cities her entire adult life, I have
to applaud this law. Trying to see an evening movie targeted at adults
in a major metropolitan theatre is a misery. Infants aren’t the only
problem. The problem is more often with older children. I’ve been in
countless movies where a group of 2-3 single women are accompanied by
6-8 children from the ages of 5-10. The “adults” will sit together in
one section of the seats with the children sitting in another area.
This guarantees countless back and forth during the movies with both
verbal shout outs of “ma” and constant running up and down the isles.
Any lawmaker who thinks an underage movie clerk or usher will refuse
service to these patrons without the force of law, or threat of stiff
fines to the owners, has been seeing all their movies at home.

Okay, true. I guess I have been bothered by children occasionally at a movie theater and wondered why parents with kids 5-10 are seeing Kill Bill (replace with your inappropriate movie of choice). And, I’m all for federalism and all…If a locality sees a real need…. But we’re talking Philly here. Seems like they have bigger problems than kids under six in movie theaters.