Ai yi yi, yes if you have a child having a tantrum in public it's really a no-win situation! If you do nothing, it drives people up a wall because who wants to witness an out-of-control child screaming their head off? If you firmly take control of the situation and make the child behave, people get hysterical because you're abusing the child by imposing your will on them. No win.

The Turpin family has absolutely become a venue for a media circus. Those poor, poor kids. No matter what happened, they are going to now be permanently affected. Poor kids.