“I will raise a question: what if the parents show no inclination to raise the child as a Catholic? Or show in a manifest manner that they have little or no clue what that means?”
None of those conditions obtains.
“Plus, they resist instruction?”
It feels to me like resisting bureaucratic nonsense.
"This is the most poorly-catechized generation in the history of the Church. Why don't our priests teach actual Catholic Doctrine, fer chrissakes?!""Well, we're going to have instruction before every Sacrament."
"What?? Fuggedaboudit! The nerve! Who do you think you are?"