Disrespectful chess children?

Why should we have to put up with someone's bastard demon spawn?  Kids shouldn't be allowed out in public until age 12.  At that point they're big enough it should be legal for total strangers to slug them in the side of the head if necessary.

Firmly agreed. You can't bring your dog into a restaurant but you can bring your kids?!! At least the dog will shut up for more than three seconds if you give it something to chew on. And the spread of germs and fecal matter is about the same.

At a local chess club I proposed a tournament for adults only. It would be only one  time every three months (the club meets only one day a week). You would have tought that I wanted to shoot the kids not, just stop them playing there one week every three months.

They have kids only tournies all the time so I dont see why there cant also be adults only events...... 

Perhaps you and the like-minded adults could form a sub-group of the club and arrange to meet every once in a while, or even form a separate club and meet when the local club doesn't.

Who are the jerks ? 

I didn't either. But the parents of the kids threatened to take their mini-GM's elsewhere, and many of the other adult players said "But I love to play the little darlings" and "we need to encourage the kids they are the future of chess". Everyone knows that as soon as puberty kicks in and the boys start to think of girls and the girls start to think of boys most drop chess as fast as they can. The way to encourage more kids to take up chess and keep at it is to make it profitable to play. Make being a chess professional a viable career option.

The kids, I would say from my experience so far: definitely. The adults, not so much.

Well, we usually do act stupid at the club, just not in any way that relates to the game or screws with the tournament at all.

I am a local TD and this is the approach I take. Children are playing in a tournament, (or rated club games for that matter) that has rules for the adults. All adults are expected to follow those rules or are penalized. The same holds true for these children. Unless they directly experience a consequence for their bad behavior, they will continue to act as they do. I would penalize them with time subtracted from their clocks initially if its a tournament, then increasingly severe penalties (forfeiture of games, and upon a third event, banning from the next tournament or club meeting) Eventually they will get it. BTW, I tell children who are playing me in rated games that I will not accept their distracting behavior as soon as they start doing it. 

Rarely have I played against a kid who has been disrespectful, more often it is adults (even more often it's their non-playing parents) who act that way.

I don't mind playing kids, but every once in a while it would be nice to escape them.