If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.

The prequel book was about classism. Everyone wanted to get off the island because they were basically second class citizens. The only tv channel allowed was about how much better the royals were. The only food was scraps that the people on the mainland didn't want, bruised and stale and rotten. The plot gets kicked off because Carlos managed to get a tiny amount of normal tv and cracked the literal prison barrier in the process

The first movie was about sins of the father (or mother in this case) and how the circumstances of your birth don't determine your future. It's about generational pressure and the more subtle forms of abuse children can be subjected to

The second movie is about helping other people rather than just yourself, and how people in a dangerous situation can lash out

The third movie is about... how bullies are evil? How neglectful dads can be coaxed into helping you through a dramatic sing-along??