If they thought about it, they may have come to the conclusion that it was newsworthy enough to outweigh the fact that it's obvious clickbait. If I were a pare

If they thought about it, they may have come to the conclusion that it was newsworthy enough to outweigh the fact that it's obvious clickbait. If I were a parent I would want to read it, and had it not been published, I might have thought that choice unfair to parents who might be in a similar position.