According to the text of the article, the father was arrested with the children. The mother was not. Me, I would've left them on the sidelines with their mother.
Call me a bad father if you must...but my son...who is a Boy Scout working on his Eagle Scout...who is very involved in his Church youth group came to me and said he wanted to do something like this...knowing the risks...I'd be very hard pressed to tell him no.
that should have been "if my son came to me and said"
his doddering old father can't type this morning :)