If you had known anything about the lives and background of those parents, perhaps you would have been impressed that they had it together enough to feed and clothe their child and actually get themselves and him to the clinic to deal with whatever they had to deal with. That might have been a real accomplishment for them. There are people out there who grew up in hell and have lived most of their lives in hell and they're struggling with everything they've got to keep from sliding back into hell - cut them some slack, and, as a couple of posters have suggested, if they seem ineffectual in dealing with their kids, try to figure out how to help, and maybe teach them something by example. Maybe no one ever played games with them or read to them or talked to them when they were kids and so those sorts of things don't come naturally to them. What on earth is the point of coming on here and sneering at people who you think are doing a lousy job of parenting? Those people might be doing a real bang-up job compared to the way they were raised, or not raised ...