You, and many say: well, just drive....sounds good on paper, but sometimes driving is truly not a viable option...there are times you have to travel 2000 miles, and you don’t have a week to devote to round-trip driving...not all travel is elective. Remember, for older children, that there are school functions that may require air travel—bands performing, teams playing, etc.
There are also weather considerations, I would love a summer drive from the midwest to California, but not Nov-March.
IMHO Simply saying just don’t fly if you care about privacy issues related to yourself or children, simply allows the government to usurp more and more rights....
Usurping of rights.... since when is videotaping TSA agents performing a grope-down a crime? since when can they confiscate your phone? well since it was made into a law and no one challenged it till now....
We will soon see these tactics being implemented at more and more facilities under more and more circumstances.
No...it says that I refuse to put my kids out there as gropable expendible infantrymen in MY parental stead of dealing with the problem/injustice. I choose to refuse to play by THEIR sick rules. I won't offer up my kids.
And you make the choice for your adolescent children to be groped or not by creepy adult strangers with creepy dirty gloves. It depends on your "convenience" level.
Also, did you see mojitojoe's post #405?