That is so sad. I know when my kids were little (collicky twins at one point) I said more than once that I was glad that my wife and I were not in our teens or young twenties at the time - and were somewhat mature. And caring. With the “me” attitude of so many, including myself to a certain extent when I was young, it would have been even more difficult raising kids.
The only thing we ever did to our kids to get them to shut up was hold them, check their diapers, feed them, hold them, bounce on the bouncy ball, try feeding them again (WHY won’t they stop crying!!!???)
Usually after an hour with a twin in each arm bouncing on the bouncy ball they would quiet down. Unless you stopped bouncing....
Much to the chagrin of my elderly mother - “Just put them in their cribs and let them cry.”
But enough about me - back to the article. Put the “father” into the freezer for an hour for every six-weeks of his life as punishment - seems reasonable to me.
Never so much as then did I realize how much that my little girl relied on me. It made us closer, not farther apart. She was the first, but that remained.
It is only those who think only of themselves who could put their inconvenience ahead of their baby's pain.
My first born would only calm down by being in some sort of motion. A ride in the car worked wonders but I often had him in my arms while I ran the riding mower or set him on the washer or dryer as we did laundry. We called his baby swing the, “neglect-o-matic” as it gave us some down time.
I too thank heaven for giving me our kids well into our thirties as we were much calmer parents than the twenty-somethings we knew.
My eldest daughter never did this. She cried if something was wrong, you fixed it, she stopped crying. My youngest daughter, however, never stopped crying. She was never happy. Hubby and I would take turns walking around the house with her. If you stopped, she just started crying again. My parents came to visit and they were shocked at how we had to keep walking her around the living room.
She is now in Japan teaching English. Very intelligent girl with a keen sense of humor. So, I guess it was worth it; but, your description sent me down memory lane.