ok, theleveller, I'll try not to resort to being insulting back to you..

"We would have considered going if they'd allowed children. I can't believe that, in this day and age,
there's a folk festival that doesn't allow anyone under 18. Needless to say, we won't be going
until that policy is changed."

"On key dates throughout the year our Resorts go adults-only with our Big Weekends.
No kids, no taxis, no worries....
Just pick the kind of music you like, round up your mates, head down to Butlins and party all weekend."

well you see, that's the entire point of Butlin's "Adults-only Big Weekends"

Its a holidy camp, its a once in a blue moon weekend break specifically catering for adults to get away
from all the demands and stresses of their kids
and let their hair down for a rave up with other
temporarily care-free grown ups.

Its also a extremely rare opportunity for adult music lovers to avoid the perpetual tyranny
of self-rightious pompous middle-class parents
and their over-indulged noisy nuisance cute little spoilt brat darlings.

'Folk' is only one of many different music genre oriented Adult music weekends presented at these holiday centres.

Its Butlins, a big corporate holiday and entertainment company,
not Cambridge, Sidmouth, or any of the many smaller 'Folk Culture'
family festivals and events throughout the year.

You have every other festival bending to your 'family friendly' demands:

and fair enough, to a certain extent, most people, including me,
would agree entirely with your reasons and motives..

"What have you got against children, erbert? Not interested in the next generation of folk musicians? How very selfish of you. I have an 11-year old daughter who has been to every festival with us and who loves the music, plays cell and fiddle, sings and just loves the whole vibe."

well thats fantastic, and you've every right to be proud of your folk musically inclined child.

But should that give you any right or privilege to arrogantly expect every effin folk event to cater only for your personal selfish family arrangements ?

tough, Butlins know their market, and the reasonable requirements of their target consumers;
exhausted stressed out parents treating themselves
to a weekend away from the family to just be themselves !!!

and for many other music fans, its an additional bonus that for once they can enjoy
a line up of popular performers free from the distraction and irritation of other peoples over-indulged noisy kids.

Hence, these very popular and successful Adult-Only Weekend music Breaks.