I'm not necessarily for or against those beacons, but the cost is $150 or so, and there is a full rebate of the purchase price right now.

As a Dad, I have a responsibility to my kids to make it back every time I leave the house. I would personally choose to wear one. There has also been a fair amount of abuse of those beacons, where one party was removed from a wilderness area because they had used it twice for stupid reasons. People will find a reason to abuse everything, I guess.