You've got some good points. Add to that the parents who react with hysteria whenever someone comments about their kids ("Don't tell me what to do with my kids!" or "How dare you discipline my kids!") and to be honest I'm just kind of over the whole thing. You want to make dumb decisions with your kids, fine by me, the kids will suffer but that's the parents' fault. I'm not gonna fight about it. I guess the kids just get to wait until they are old enough to run away like these poor girls, who are now at the mercy of (shudder) the state.