It's the other way around. Rousseau's children were victims of his utter selfishness. His abandonment of his children to almost certain death was roundly condem

It's the other way around. Rousseau's children were victims of his utter selfishness. His abandonment of his children to almost certain death was roundly condemned by Voltaire who despised him. This caused Rousseau social embarrassment not remorse, which threatened to compromise his livelihood as a parasite on the idle aristocracy. Rousseau attempted to evade Voltaire's condemnation by rationalizing that the fault should not be laid at his door, but that of society: in a perfect society, those infants would have received proper nurture, and Rousseau's actions would not have mattered.