I really feel for those children, they deserve a better parent than they got.
I can feel the love and genuineness of heart in the way quinine behaved, but what can be done since the parents of the children don't see from that angle.
Like you pointed out, we still have many parents with that kind of thinking.
It's such a tough call--and one that doesn't really appear to have any tangible answers. Clearing our conditioned minds, forgiving, loving, accepting, caring, taking responsibility.....there are solutions though they require each of us individually to do the work. May it be that we get to experience radical change in our lifetimes.
Sure, it's a personal choice, but many people are not ready or willing to make that choice. Let's keep playing our roles in making our world worth living for the coming generation. Who knows who will see it and copy the good we are doing, and by so doing, we have multiply ourselves.
That's right! Living it speaks volumes more than preaching it!! People only know what they know and are ready only when they choose for themselves. So we'll just keep on living epically and setting an example, and living joyous some more!
You nailed it.