Now you see "forcing" people into anything is usually very counter-productive. Hence the saying "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar".
I remember my dear late mother, with whom I got on very well for the most part, lamenting the loss of literal "fear of God" in child rearing. She didn't think it was a bad thing for small children to believe an invisible entity watching their every move to spur them into compliant behaviour on threat of terrible punishment if not now then in the afterlife.
We had a long conversation about it, and she backed off especially when I pointed out that there is plenty of evidence that upbringing like that have contributed to the actions of some of the worst serial killers, not to mention other more general atrocities.
It's all well and good to punish people for their failings but some of them will take out their perceived injustice on the nearest next available target.
Parent gets punished for child's poor dental health, parent blames child and punushes it. Again, accuse me of hyperbole or extreme thinking, but if a vulnerable child is made more vulnerable by punishing the parent, that child has the foundations of poor mental health that carries on down the line.
So something like poor dental health is often part of a bigger picture, but can be overseen reasonably cheaply and effectively by a little intervention in the immediate best interests of the child, freeing up resources and focus to address the bigger, core issues, and hopefully lead to better outcomes for the child and their children.
Once again, it's a bigger picture. Focusing on punishing parents doesn't necessarily help the child, even if it seems like the right response.