Mom Sparks Tense Twitter Debate After Arguing That Babies Be Banned From Airplanes

— -- One mom appeared on a TV morning show earlier this month, arguing that young kids shouldn't be allowed to fly among childless passengers aboard airplanes.

Now, a fiery Twitter debate has been triggered by parents who are either outraged, or singing her praises.

"I've read some of the comments on Twitter and I'm always happy to have sparked a debate and to be involved in a debate, but people have used words like segregation -- suggesting that I think children should be seen and not heard," Kelly Rose Bradford of London, England, told ABC News today. "That's not what it's about."

"You're stuck when you're on a plane and you can't move away from the source of the noise," she said.

Bradford, a journalist and mom of one, said people began sounding off using the hashtag #childfreeflights, following her appearance on a British television program called "This Morning" on Aug. 4.

The topic discussed that day was child-free flying, she said, and both sides of the issue were represented, by Bradford and another woman who argued against the proposal.

"I just went on and put forward the case," Bradford said. "I think as a customer you should have the option to select seats that are away from families, or away from small children."

"Families can be in an area where they know if they are going to be embarrassed by their kids noise-making, they wouldn’t have to worry so much about feeling they were under scrutiny by other passengers -- indeed miserable ones like me, to hear their children kicking off, shouting and screaming," she added.

Bradford said that in the past, she chose not to fly with her now 12-year-old son as a baby to avoid the risk of it being an ordeal for him, herself, and fellow passengers.

"I also thought about my child's comfort," she said. "You hear all these babies crying and screaming while taking off and landing when the pressure is terrible. What I am suggesting is that people have the option of travelling on child-free flights, or that families have the option of having seats in a family area. You have first class and business class, so why not family-class, too?"

"I would love for all of these people who are criticizing my views because they have small children to wait and see when they're out of the baby stage because I'm sure the parents' views will change," Bradford added. "It's very easy to be tolerant of that when you’ve got the crying baby."

Bradford said that while she has no plans to push airlines in creating family sections, she'll happily continue standing up for her views on the subject.