To think cinema staff should actually ID people even when with their parents?

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DD and I went to see an 18 film. She is 18, but looks 13. She is very young looking. To the point she used to be asked if she is a lost year year 7 (obviously in sixth form now so doesn't get that). She has been IDed for Christmas crackers before!

She wasn't IDed for the film. AIBU to think they should when a person clearly looks under 18 and it shouldn't matter if the person they are with is obviously a parent?

They do at our local cinema. I tried to take my 13 yr old ds into see a 15 and they wouldn't let me take him in. Quite rightly so but I thought I'd try to get him in anyway

If your daughter goes to the cinema quite regularly they may recognise her and know she's 18.

I find this a bit weird with younger kids and the peculiar 12A rating - for example I know somebody who took a 5 year old to Rogue One in the cinema. It just isn't suitable is it? Yet they are allowed in without problem because they are with an adult (it can be any adult - no rule about it being a parent rather than a babysitter/ sibling/ mate's big brother/ second cousin's postman's uncle/ any random adult). How can a film only be suitable for people over 12 but be fine for 5 year olds in the company of somebody over 18?

Its nothing to do with behaviour in the cinema and spoiling adult's enjoyment, its to do with whether the film is too violent/ deals with adult themes etc.

Very odd.

When I went to see suicide squad they were turning a lot of families away at ticket check because the kids didn't have ID. Lots of angry parents... It was quite funny to watch.
When I was at school I had a citizen card, don't know if they still do them though.

I have a young looking DS so as soon as he was 15 we were advised to have a photo of his passport photo page on his phone and mine - we have probably been asked to show it about a dozen times in last 2 years, but less so recently as he has suddenly grown 6" taller in 6 months! Not much help if you don't have a passport of course!

In the US you can take any age of child to any film so long as they're with an adult.

Magzmarsh so your 18 year old babysitter could take a 5 year old to watch a slasher horror film at full volume in the cinema?

That's nice then.

Yes that's the law in the US. I don't live there but have relatives and been several times on holiday and this is definitely the case.

I dare say your scenario has happened many times.

Who cares!!!! Who really makes their kids stick to 18 cert if they're 17 for example? That's the bonus of going with your mum and probably why half of teens agree to go out with dp... That and they pay

DD once showed her passport to a cinema ticket office. They refused her entry because it didn't have her actual age on it. Just her date of birth, and the girl said she couldn't be expected to calculate it from that....a bit of a ruckus broke out in the queue as people protested on DD's behalf....

They do check ID for 18/15 films here even with a parent present.

No, an 18 year old couldn't take a 5 year old into the cinema in the US. The adult has to be over 21 and have parental permission. I have seen young kids in R rated movies before, but predominantly it's used by parents of 15/16 year olds who want to go and see Deadpool or something.

They do at our local cinemas. They have had a huge blitz on teens going into 15s underage so they are asking anyone vaguely around that age, even when with parents.

They asked DD's friend when out with her mates and boring - she was 15y, some of others not so couldn't get in.

They asked DD when she went to the cinema with DH - no ID meant not getting. (She wasn't 15 - 3 months off but easily looks around that age- so shouldn't have been going in anyway, think they were chancing it, but went to see something else instead after saying they'd not got ID with them.)

I worked in a cinema when I was a student and we would get into a LOT of trouble if we let suspected underage people in but the hassle we'd get from kids and parents alike when asking was awful. People were very rude. And to be fair I understood where they were coming from, if they were with their parents and I knew it was a PITA trying to get ID for kids of 12+ if you didn't have a passport (in the days before 12A). We risked the cinema being fined and/or getting into trouble with the council. And our job. Rock and a hard place.

Maybe the person in the kiosk was simply a better judge of age than you're giving them credit for?

I should imagine they get plenty of practise