As parents and human beings we weep over the death of this child just as we mourn every aborted baby. On the other side, we see our freedom as parents steadily whittled away as the law seeks to compensate for individual parental malfeasance by broad laws applying to all.
An analogy to the restriction of gun rights fits.
If we have nearly 90% of the children born in our ghetto to be fatherless, we must broaden the law to protect these children before they become aggressive and violent teenagers. But we cannot apply the law only to parents in the ghetto, it must be applied equally to us in the suburbs as well. And so it is that we lose the power to discipline our own children. We lose options of homeschooling. We lose the power to spank children. We find that our children are being "socialized" in a school system which they are virtually required to attend in ways contrary to our values.
The root of the problem is a moral decay in society which we are trying to solve with broad legislation which inevitably steals everyone's liberty a little.
