Can we please edit the title to match the (correct) original "children's" instead of the modified (incorrect) "childrens'"
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'childrens' is 'more correct' because it makes the most grammatical sense.
Since it's genitiv, why would you apostrophe it, add another character for what reason? Whose ball is it? The dogs ball. Whose exhaust is it? It's the rockets exhaust. The apostrophe is used to mark silent letters inbetween the slew of two words. It is -> It's ~ It(i)s.
Obligatory Bob the Angry Flower educational cartoon link: http://www.angryflower.com/247.html
That flower's partially wrong.
I disagree with the angry flowers possesive case.
The apostrophe in possesive case is confusing and illogical.
That's fine, but that's how english works.
I would refactor this.
The users of a language decide, so you just need to get everybody to follow your idea.
The apostrophe is used to indicate genitive in English. I think you're thinking of the more subtle double genitive case that you sometimes see in examples like "A brother of the man's" (double genitive) instead of "a brother of the man" (normal genitive). English is strange, but you can indicate the genitive with either the "of" construction, or the apostrophe.
It doesn't make any sense to put an apostrophe on a noun just because it's genitive, this is just a recent typographical fad.