Here's the deal.
If you bring your spouse through the employee line, make sure they're "Johnny on the Spot" when it comes to screening.
Bin/Shoes/Laptop/BAM, not stand there taking thirty bangles off, bitching about the TSA, "Here honey, hold this, OMG I can't believe I have to (whatever)". If they're not as fast as any other employee, leave
earlier. Employee screening lines
will go away if it's abused -- ask anyone that lays over in CDG or LAS for that matter.
I don't think children belong in the line for the most part, unless, of course, they're "Johnny on the Spot" which, as darling as your babies are... probably
aren't. If they are, good!
Major tourist cities, use the regular line unless they're little micro Speedy Gonzales's. If every non-rev took his kids though the employee line, the employee line would rival the regular traveler line. And if I'm just trying to get to work and some employee is trying to drag the entire "Walton Family Goes to Universal Studios", you're doing your fellow employees a grand disservice.