I’m concerned that you’re more troubled by the parents’ disgust at statist attempts to control them than you are by the statist attempts to control these (and other) parents.
“The parents do need to be investigated!”
Ahh....and that explains why. Hail the Glorious State, which is all knowing and justly investigates all!
(Do I really need a sarc tag?)
Yes let’s use the kids as pawns to push a political agenda..when this sort of situation needed more of a wiser low key approach. Liberalism and its support of the most basest forms of human behavior has made many urban areas very dangerous for young kids. There are ways to wisely teach children self reliance without putting themselves in danger.
Now I suspect the parents will get a stiff lecturing but nothing much will happen to them otherwise. It depends on if parents are simply nerfball pollyannas who believe in the inherent goodness of everyone or if they are pushing a political agenda to the detriment of their children.