Where's Mom?  This is a supremely awful article about "parents
who shouldn't be allowed on planes" because they are accompanied
by "badly behaved" children.  It's terrible because, as so many
stories on this topic are, it's poorly written, relying on the
truly yawn-inducing conceit of waxing nostalgic about the Good
Ol' Days when parents used to control their children. As if
grumblebums weren't writing articles about insolent infants on
the Transcontinental Rail in 1872.  It's also terrible because,
as so many stories on this topic do, it draws no distinction
between a child who's genuinely behaving badly and needs
correction that isn't being given, and a child who's simply
being a child. During a recent 2-1/2-hour flight from Portland,
Maine, to Charlotte, North Carolina, Tom Meador heard nothing
but crying.  "The baby in the back row screamed bloody murder,"
he remembers. "Its mother did everything she could think of to
quiet the baby. She actually was dripping with sweat because you
could tell she worried