Fear and intimidation are much cheaper....................
Could be, certainly. But as a father myself I wouldn’t care one wit. I’d do all I could to create multiple dead-man type switches all over the place and then I’d start barking like a neighbor’s dog.
Hard to imagine the parents couldn’t start singing all over national network news shows and quickly gain a very high profile... but then again, Juanita Broderick was almost totally disissed.