Our guild has a lady that routinely brings her young grand-daughter. We just love it because she's so well behaved you hardly even know she's there. What if your guild had a couple of 'busy bags' with coloring books, etc. to give the little ones something to do while they're there? I think members having conversations during meetings/presentations is much more of a problem in our guild than children. It's a touchy issue that is sure to cause some hard feelings either way and may result in some members dropping out altogether.