I lived in a gated community for a while, and indeed admired the grit and guts of modern parents. Kids aged four and above, both boys and girls, are simply left alone in apartments as if the whole world will take care of them.
On top of that, the girl children wear dresses that are disturbingly short and revealing. Maybe the mother wanted to wear them all her life but was never given the freedom to do so.
Your kids look cute to you, not necessarily to everyone else. Call people perverts, villains, or whatever names you want to, but never expect the world to be a temple and everyone in it a saint.
I would tell my wife, “These idiots dress up their young kids like FTV models and expect men and security guards to protect them. Someday, their kids will be taken away or abused, and the parents will have no choice but to blame society.”
And today, I read a news report about a five-year-old child in a particular gated community who was kidnapped and killed by a security guard.
Yes, you can blame society, call men perverts, run social media campaigns about how to make society safe for kids, demand justice, insist that the guilty be hanged, and fight for capital punishment.
But the truth remains that you have lost your child forever, and she is never going to come back. As a parent, it was your responsibility to safeguard her.
I know a couple who visited Thailand on vacation with their seven-year-old daughter. They were away for just five minutes, and she was kidnapped. It is often said that if you cannot find a kidnapping victim within two hours, you may never find them because the kidnappers could have already moved them to another country.
Now you can blame Thailand, the kidnappers, the system, the police, or any number of countries. But the truth remains that you lost your child, and none in the world can help you deal with that loss except you yourself.
Society may owe you justice. The police may owe you answers. The criminal may deserve the harshest punishment the law permits.
But none of them can bring your child back.