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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1575798" data-attributes="member: 945">I guess it really depends on the make-up of the group.  Our group doesn't really have an issue with it, but I'll explain our situation:We game at a guy's house who has three kids (ages 4 to about 10).  His wife does not game, so while we play in the basement, his wife is more or less watching them.  Occasionally, his kids will come into the basement and observe, but they understand that they are to be quiet.  His kids are well-behaved, so it's usually not an issue.Another guy has kids, but his wife stays home with them when he games.  He has, on a few occasions, brought his kids with him because his wife had to work.  Usually not a big deal - the kids play together, until they go to sleep.  He play at night, so the kids are all asleep by the time we really get into it.I have a 1 year old daughter, and my wife stays home with her.  My friend has two kids, and again, his wife stays home with them.Now, we do have a couple that plays with us, and they had a kid at the beginning of the year.  At first, the wife thought that she could continue to play, and bring the kid.  It was pretty awful for her, because she was having to stop and feed the kid, and change the diapers, and her husband was helping her constantly as well.  So, she bowed out eventually.  Only recently she has expressed interest in playing again, so we'll try it again.  Only this time, the baby is old enough that she's sleeping through the night, so it might not be as much of an issue.  It will probably be a bigger problem if the kid was say, 10 or 12, and they had more than one, but we're not there, so we don't have to worry about that.But, I'm sure that whole explanation didn't help you in the least, did it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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