Just to be clear I don't think the parents here were in the wrong in any way, the father was obviously close enough to the child which would have been the only negligence in the two year old being in the water IMO.
My statement has to do be people thinking that if you don't have kids your opinion on certain situations doesn't hold as much value, this only holds true in mental situations. If someone loses a child you might say you don't have kids you don't know what that feels like and that may be true but you don't need to have kids to know what its like to try and control a kid, people without kids do it everyday.
I said you have as much control over a 2yo as you want with want being the keyword. We don't want total control over our kids we watch them very closely and asses situations to keep them out of danger, if your 2yo ran off and got hit by a car that is on the parent as they had the ability to have more control but either choose to too more freedom or underestimated their own abilities to stop the situation. Some parents are more free with their kids and accept that there are always risks and some are overprotective and try and remove all risks but in the end its the parents choice how much control they want. Its not over estimated by people with kids its just that most parents choose less control.
One thing that really needs to stop is judging other parents for how they raise their kid, I don't agree with people choosing to keep their kids in a bubble I believe they needs to do things to learn from but its not for me to judge them. The parents here may not have done what others would have but they certainly were not negligent and people with their 20/20 hindsight that want to call them out in this freak/tragic situation need to step back and try to understand in this day and age their words reach further and cause a lot more pain.
/ramble off
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