User blog comment:Weavillain/How Would You Approach a "No Such Luck" Fic?/@comment-4618045-20171005104326/@comment-31563773-20171005112737

I think you'd have to do a serious amount of self convincing to think locking a child outside is a noble act. Very possible in real life, but still highly frowned upon. If anything, the parents would have done the one thing they were trying to avoid: embarrassment. Most would consider them insane or outright dumb for thinking such a solution would help. Pretty hard to have credibility when you shot it up in the first place. However, I see all of this as a potential plot. But on the other hand, I can also see the pile of negative feedback for making the parents seem outright stupid.