Some people just shouldn't parent

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Another mylotter brought this video to my attention. I have shared it with one of my assistants who is a mom and told other people about it. It's kids engaging in Ultimate Fighter type behavior. They were trained to do this. Their parents knew about it. In my opinion, it's nothing short of legalized child abuse. How do you guarantee that their behavior is not going to spill out onto the playground or other places? Kids get angry, how can these kids be expected to control their anger? The second case I have in mind is the case of my friend, Jeremiah, who ran away from home at 12 because his parents were going to force him to have a surgery in which he could have died, there was a 50-50 chance and 85% chance he would have ended up worse. He has Cerebral Palsy and communicates by a speech board. Now he is 18 and thanks to the fact that a lot of people in the disability community took care of him and hid him for 6 years he is reasonably okay. Still damaged, but okay. You can't leave him in a room with able bodied people ever. He thinks they are going to hurt him. He goes to a college which only has students with disabilities because that's all he can handle right now. I talked to his mom. I was the only person who would. He doesn't want to speak to her and I understand that. She knows she did something wrong. I can't imagine knowing you had damaged your kid in that way permanently. I know my kid is going to be a little messed up because every parent makes mistakes but there are degrees of mistakes and degrees of acceptable. I hope my kid is not permanently damaged by some mistake I made, I don't think I could live with myself if I did that. People wonder all the time what kind of mother I will be because I'm in a wheelchair. I can tell you for sure that while I'll make some errors, everybody does, I won't do anything like this.